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Monash University issues world-first certified green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... years, 17.5 years or 20 years. The bond has been certified under the Climate Bonds Standard by the Climate Bonds Standards Board, and Monash University engaged Ernst and Young to provide verification that funds invested are aligned with the Climate Bonds ...

Engagement a tool for investment stewardship: RIAA conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... there is a credible threat that shareholders will get together and start putting resolutions - either to start removing the board, which requires an enormous escalation, or to deal with a particular issue -... that has a significant impact on how the ...

ANZ appoints Katharine Tapley head of sustainable finance solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... AWA with governments, and both local and Australian companies operating in the region, ANZ said at the time. Tapley is a board member of the Carbon Market Institute, advisory panel member for the Australia-Indonesia Centre's Urban Water Cluster research ...

Majority of 50 largest super funds have RI approach: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... have reference responsible investment in their vision, mission or investment beliefs, and disclosed RI accountability at board level, while 68% of funds have "clearly identified key stakeholders as playing a role in informing their investment beliefs." ...

Julia Leske appointed new chief executive officer of CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... look forward to remaining actively involved with CAER and responsible investment through my role on the Investment Advisory Board of the ACT Department of Treasury." CAER is an independent ESG research house established in 2000 and has as global research ...

IGCC, investor groups issue updated guide for oil and gas industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... COP 22 in Morocco on November 14, 2016. Investor expectations are broken down into five areas of concern: Governance - are board and management processes well enough defined to ensure adequate oversight of climate-related risk and effective planning ...

EY issues call to action to companies over social license to operate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... Bell said. "Surprisingly, a lot of positive sentiments," Bell said. "There has been a lot of feedback from directors of the board, particularly non-executive directors that recognise the trends. You need to look at Brexit, Trump, our own PM telling the ...

Principles for Responsible Investment hire chief operating officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... firm's operational management. Prior to working at Carnstone, de Graaf also worked as managing director and member of the board at Trucost, and spent five years at FTSE, first as managing director EMEA, then as managing director for public affairs. In ...

Impact Investing Australia surveys $1.2bn impact investment universe

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... impact investments, according to research from Impact Investing Australia. Rosemary Addis, chair of the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing and Impact Investing Australia Impact Investing Australia recently launched Benchmarking Impact: Australian ...

Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership to offer director program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... and environmental trends in relation to corporate issues, and the NED program builds on this, tailored to issues in on a board agenda. "The NED residential is a day and a half around capacity building in the boardroom," Jeyaretnam said. "We've found ...