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Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... before their annual shareholder meetings in early 2014. Local Government Super, Christian Super, LUCRF Super, Australian Ethical Investment and Five Oceans Asset Management are part of the initiative. "We would like to understand [the company's] reserve ...

CBA questioned over carbon emissions calculations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... was very much the decision on disclosure and being factually correct." Trevor Thomas, managing director of Ethinvest, an ethical financial planning firm, said asked CBA why they included re-allocating the carbon emissions to tenants to get clarification ...

Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Board at its November AGM. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director Ethinvest, an investment advisory firm founded on ethical investment principles, is supporting Dunlop's candidacy based on his credentials as both a climate advocate - he was a member ...

Westpac, CBA raise $10 million for Benevolent Society SBB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... taken up by charitable foundations and philanthropic family trusts, Westpac said. NRMA Motoring & Services, Australian Ethical Investments, Westpac Foundation and Commonwealth Bank of Australia all took part in the fund raising for the SBB, along with ...

Sedex notes increasing demand for ethical procurement data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ethical and sustainable supply chain management are being integrated into procurement practices in Australia and around the world, according Net Balance and Sedex. Sedex operates an online database of ethical and sustainable supply chain data that allows ...

Australian Ethical Investment to reorganise business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical Investments is restructuring its business, including a "substantial" reduction of its Canberra operations and outsourcing some functions. Phil Vernon, Australian Ethical managing director Australian Ethical announced the changes will ...

NGS Super to launch stand-along SRI fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... (SRI) option for members that will be launched later this year. This is not the fund's first attempt at a stand-alone ethical investment option. NGS Super has had a Green Shares option that has not been a popular choice with fund members, said Anthony ...

Cbus to divest from tobacco assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... a similar approach by the fund manager. See Also: VicSuper, SAS Trustee Corporation to divest from tobacco Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

Corporates should look beyond CSR to creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... don't see it as being widespread, but I think it can quickly become widespread. We've seen rapid acceptance of ideas like ethical investment and so on, and that has to be picked up by the institutional investing groups like super funds and so on, which ...

J.P. Morgan rates Australian REITs reporting, management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... pornography, gambling, armaments and nuclear energy. The equity research team spoke with the REITs about their approach to the ethical impacts of their tenants. "The approaches we surveyed came at these ethical challenges in three ways: typically acknowledging ...