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Carbon price to have limited impact on superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
The proposed carbon price would have a limited impact on superannuation funds overall, amounting to a cost of up to 0.8% of revenue from companies held in the Australian equity portfolios of 14 of the largest superannuation funds. This conclusion comes ...

James Thier retires from Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... of sustainability investing has become more mainstream since 2000. "In terms of the marketplace, 2000 was clearly a big shift in ethical and sustainable investment," he said. "That was when the mainstream funds that had watched us and watched Hunter ...

Imbalances, sustainability and their impact on investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... any reason for that demand to go away? I don't have a clear answer to that, but part of the analysis would factor in the shift in the Chinese and other developing economies to a consumer economy rather than an export-led economy." But, Hodgson pointed ...

Benchmarking superannuation funds' sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... [ESG] certainly does matter," he said. "The funds' attitudes and members' attitudes have shifted. What we're seeing now is a shift to embedding ESG principles across the entire portfolios. No doubt that the impending carbon price is going to have an ...

The impact of universal owners on sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... smaller funds. Towers Watson notes that smaller, well governed funds can follow in Universal Owners' slipstreams where they shift towards sustainable investment strategies for possible asset allocation opportunities. "[Universal Owners] are important ...

Deloitte, GRI to develop new program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... investors, auditors and other report users to access and compare GRI data more quickly and easily. "We are experiencing a major shift towards electronic information delivery," said Cees de Boer, CFO and COO of Deloitte in the Netherlands. "This development ...

KPMG: sustainability strategies driven by cost reduction, environment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... strategic competitive advantage and cost reduction - all the core business agenda issues. The survey shows that there's a shift towards a mainstreaming of sustainability in people's minds, but of course there's a lag in companies actually doing it and ...

Rio Tinto annual report: fewer injuries, increase in GHG emission

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
Rio Tinto reported falling injury frequency rates, a year-on-year uptick in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity and a 40 per cent increase in community contributions against a backdrop of record US$14bn in underlying earnings and falling debt in ...

Climate change a portfolio risk: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011  |  NEWS
... chemicals. Under that scenario, Australia would rank as one of the five countries most likely to experience the greatest shift in demand and be worst off, along with the US, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Canada. Helga Birgden, head of responsible investing ...