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Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
Politics is the process of governing an entity for the purpose of allocating resources. Superannuation funds are not partisan political participants in the way that elected politicians are, but funds' investment activities are impacted by politics ...

Paula Benson appointed NAB GM corporate affairs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... general manager of corporate affairs at Alcoa of Australia where she was responsible for government, community and stakeholder relations, external and internal communications, community engagement, community partnerships, corporate events, brand and ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
Westpac Group reported increases in women in leadership roles, lending to cleantech and environmental services of AU$8 billion and new commitments around disclosure of carbon emissions as part of its 2014 sustainability report. Siobhan Toohill, Westpac ...

CEFC allocates more than AU$930m in first full year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has allocated investment of more than AU$930 million dollars in projects with total value of over AU$3.2 billion in its first full year of investing. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO ...

GRI to implement new governance structure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) will adopt a new governance structure from January 2015 that will include the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GGSB), which will develop and approve sustainability reporting standards. As part of the new governance ...

CDSB publishes final draft of expanded framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
The Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) has released the final draft of its expanded reporting framework. The new CDSB framework will be launched in March 2015. This second, draft version of the standard incorporates comment provided to the initial ...

bankmecu MD discusses integrated reporting implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Companies and multilateral banking institutions are considering the role that Integrated Reporting (IR) can play in enhancing transparency and financial stability, with bankmecu's managing director participating in a panel discussion on the topic at ...

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... environment, among other responsibilities. The paper also asks stakeholders to consider government's role in protecting stakeholder interest through other means, such as social policy. Depending on the views expressed by contributors, Governance Institute ...

VicSuper publishes first G4, Integrated Reporting annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... fund did an "extensive" materiality assessment using both the IR principles and GRI guidelines, resulting in a multi-stakeholder based process, Simpson said. The process this year was purely internal, although the fund will assess the report's impact ...

Advisory Board's bold strategy to increase impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... culturally in the industry. For them to say that is helpful." Building the impact investment space is going to require stakeholder groups from across the country - government, philanthropy, institutional and retail investors, and businesses, Addis noted. ...