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ACCSR: Governance and transparency material issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... was the issue of product responsibility, garnering only 14% of mentions by stakeholders. This surprised ACCSR, but the nature of the open-ended interview methodology did not permit exploration of why that might be so. "It's not a top of mind issue for ...

Omega: governance measurements reduce bond portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... Integrating political risk into the calculations of a bond's risk profile is an important additional tool because of the nature of fixed income and is asymmetric return profile. Upside return is capped at the coupon yield, but there is the possibility ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... and diffusion stage. It's sitting down to work out what is the minimum necessary in terms of government support and the nature of that support to get a particular business outcome ARENA's tech expertise is absolutely important, that's what the government ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... and reviewed some of the barriers to engaging with AIMSC suppliers, "a majority of which are small businesses and of a nature we would not normally engage directly." The company said it would continue the IIRC pilot in 2013 and would work "seek to further ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... is not just about identifying risks, but also identifying the opportunities that arise from utilising the services that nature provides us with. "On the opportunities side, there are opportunities related to the protection of natural habits and the integrated ...

City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Australia Bank, Low Carbon Australia and Eureka Funds Management have developed for this mechanism better aligns to the nature of energy efficiency savings.... Some energy efficiency projects have a seven year simple payback. When financed over 10 years ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... IRRs." National Australia Bank, Low Carbon Australia and Eureka Funds Management have created an EUA finance product. "The nature of the product that NAB has launched is a fixed interest product of up to 10 years in term," Bocskay said. "That's a powerful ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... companies because we tend to find that with our criteria and the way we manage money, the companies we invest in, are by nature, larger cap companies. We don't invest in a lot of small- or mid-cap companies. What you find there is that the information ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... concerns that the council recognise that investors are not the only target audience of an integrated report. "Given the nature of the responses, research will be undertaken on the commonality and differences between the information needs of investors ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... in supranationals, there's an extra return there with an equivalent risk to many below risk governments, so it fits the nature of being a low risk defensive government-like bonds Q: I spoke with Bill Hartnett at LGS earlier this week about the mandate ...