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Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... engines. Similarly, University of Sydney Business School Professor Christopher Wright noted that the financial services industry are also integrating climate change into their risk management models, pointing to the ways in which banks factor carbon ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... listed company chairman - Richard Carter- and other members with senior executive experience in the financial services industry. RA: You have a unique resume in that you've covered this sector as a publisher and a database manager as well as being part ...

Australian Ethical appoints Kate Greenhill to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... non-executive director. Greenhill has more than 18 years' experience in assurance and advisory services in the financial services industry. She is a former partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and has worked in both Australia and the UK. Greenhill has ...

KPMG: fraud costs Australian/NZ businesses $373 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... generally done well in implementing systems to combat fraud, bribery and corruption, Gill said. "The financial services industry, particularly at the bigger end of town, the big banks, they do generally do it well because they have to," Gill said. "Of ...

Industry leaders establish Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Finance Oath (BFO), an organisation that seeks to restore trust and encourage ethical behaviour in the financial services industry. Stephen Dunne, AMP Capital The BFO is an initiative of the Banking and Finance Ethics Panel, a working group led industry ...

Australian Ethical Investments faces EGM board spill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... the board noted that Asutralian Ethical's performance has remained solid "relative to peers in the financial services industry" through a challenging time. "Our funds under management and hence revenues have remained relatively stable," the letter said. ...

Sustainable workforce a material corporate issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... hours are not sustainable over the long term." Workforce management can be a material issue for the professional services industry, in that a healthy and motivated workforce is central to generating the company's output. The legal industry is no exception ...

RIAA: responsible investment funds grew 8% in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... as well as a trend towards direct share portfolios, both in responsible investment and across the financial services industry. Additionally, community finance assets also grew - 11 community finance providers had total assets of AU$1.490bn, an increase ...

Colonial First State Global Asset Management reports on responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has urged the financial services industry to put greater emphasis on pricing ESG issues into investment decisions while releasing a report into their own 2010 responsible investment decisions. Amanda ...

Finsia drafts principles to disclose, address gender divide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... at senior executive level. "There is a striking contrast between the number of women entering the financial services industry and the number reaching senior executive level," said Finsia CEO Russell Thomas. "As long as public reporting of gender diversity ...
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