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Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... tonnes per full time employee equivalent, lower than last year. CBA's new Commonwealth Bank Place in Sydney has been awarded a six star Green Star rating for the base building office design and is targeting a six star Green Star rating for office as ...

Number of women on boards climbs slowly, ACSI finds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... - the sons of the executive chairperson. Harvey Norman also has a CEO and an executive chairperson as does Crown. In 2009, six of the sample had an executive chairperson. In another five cases the chairperson was not independent on the entity's own classification ...

ACSI recommend against News Corp board re-election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has recommended that superannuation funds invested in News Corporation vote against the re-election of six of the company's executive directors in the upcoming annual general meeting. "Progress on these issues is occurring ...

DEXUS profits up, water, energy and GHG intensity down

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... the company integrated the recommendations in the UNPRI, of which DEXUS is a signatory. As part of that, DEXUS developed a "six pillar" strategic stakeholder approach - investors, tenants, suppliers, employees, community and environment and reported ...

Carbon price to have limited impact on superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... could hit earnings most for ASX 200 companies, held in many of the funds, that are more carbon-intensive than their peers in six sectors," said Richard Mattison, chief executive of Trucost. "Superannuation investment managers can manage carbon risk by ...

Australian property funds top GRESB list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... consumption in 2010 by almost 3% and water consumption by nearly 5%. Australian property companies dominated, holding positions in six of GRESB's global top 10. The global number one in this year's GRESB survey is the Commonwealth Property Office Fund ...

Local Government Super properties awarded 6 NABERS stars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... (NSW) based Local Government Super (LGS) has seen nine of its 11 directly owned buildings upgraded from five NABERS stars to six stars, the maximum score for environmental performance of commercial buildings. One of LGS's properties awarded 6 NABERS ...

Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency in determining methodology. The committee will comprise between five and six members appointed by the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, two of whom must be a commonwealth public servant ...

Carbon price will capture mines' fugitive emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... The Australian government has included in the carbon pricing legislation a proposal to provide AU$1.3bn in assistance over six years to some "gassy" coal mines - which is defined as mines with at least 0.1t/CO2e per tonne of saleable coal. Firms will ...

Assistance will "significantly reduce" effects of carbon tax on industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... permits expected to be allocated for free, the expected impact of the carbon tax on profitability, or both. MSCI said only six of 43 companies they identified as being eligible for EITE assistance had made announcements of earnings impacts in the week ...