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Superannuation funds urged to examine impact of investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... that companies are increasingly being made to take responsibility for their environmental and social impacts through regulation, taxation, fines, higher insurance premiums, and compensation claims, which has a flow-on impact on the long-term returns ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... significant risk," Johnston said. "There are other things that companies need to be aware of - the [Australian Prudential Regulation Authority] APRA are looking to insurance company risk management policies, and companies need ot be doing more. If you ...

Investor questions about risks, oversight of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... potential to regulatory response, which are all risks to investments. This social unrest can manifest itself in changes to regulation, another risk. "The other thing that is a real unknown is the political uncertainty," Fayers said. "As AGL found out ...

NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank (NAB) has released its 2013 reconciliation action plan (RAP) outlining their approaches to employing Indigenous Australians, addressing financial exclusion, building partnerships with indigenous organisations and traditional ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Institutional investors must take action in the investment chain, at the level of their invested companies and at the systemic market level to manage the amount of leakage in the system that reduces assets in a low-return environment, according to Mercer. ...

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Legal practice Norton Rose has launched Clean Energy Law in Australia, an online subscription service that provides commentary on commonwealth laws covering the clean energy industry. Elisa de Wit Norton Rose has also published a book of the same name ...

70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... three quarters (73%) say they feel that climate change presents a physical risk to their operations; just 13% identify regulation as a sole driver of risk," the report said. Survey respondents identified opportunities as well as risk mitigation in engaging ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... markets have a low sensitivity to resource limitations, prices are based on short-term availability, and government regulation focuses on managing flows of resources rather than stock; price driven change, in which markets have a long-term outlook of ...

PRI work stream to address systemic sustainability barriers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... stability - to promote better risk management within financial institutions, notably those that are 'too big to fail', and regulation of these institutions and the market as a whole, that serve the interests of long-term investors Company disclosure ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... pre-employment training, 334 started, and 232 remained by year end. As with most of corporate Australia and New Zealand, regulation and better risk management have ratcheted down injury rates. The frequency of both staff and customer mishaps continues ...