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Investor Profile: Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... and what we want to be involved in. In some respects, the recent creation of the Climate Advocacy Fund takes a totally different approach. It will engage with all companies because it does hold all companies within the portfolio and engages primarily ...

New water accounting standard to measure quantity, rights and obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... industry consultants. "As I see it, the purpose here is to bring about uniformity in approach, and uniformity across different entities and different industries, public or private sector, and that is important because it gives the accountability and ...

Investor Profile: Colonial First State Global Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... the only other thing I'd mention is that as a lot of people keep saying, ESG are often longer term issues. There are different incentives and structures in place in the investment world which can often create barriers to constrain investors' focus on ...

Finsia drafts principles to disclose, address gender divide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... CEO Russell Thomas. "As long as public reporting of gender diversity is voluntary, organisations will continue using different measures to suit their purposes. This not only makes it difficult to compare performance from one organisation to another but ...

NSW coal miners engage in landmark stakeholder survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... the community. There is much hard work ahead of us," she said. "Coordinating a large number of stakeholders, each with different views and issues of interest, presents some challenges. Collaborating as an industry will require individual operators to ...

Integrating ESG an evolution for institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
Raising institutional investors' awareness of ESG risk and return factors is an evolution, according to Martin Goss, senior investment consultant, head of client consulting, Australia at global consultancy Towers Watson. Institutional investors can ...

Global Reporting Initiative launch process for new standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... to in this preliminary phase of the development." GRI's G4 will address three main areas: to help companies report to different stakeholders; to promote harmonisation of available frameworks and principles; and to provide sustainability reporting guidance ...

UN PRI rolls out mandatory fees, expanded agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... PRI's governing body, the PRI Advisory Council. "There is also a need to extend the country networks, to address the different issues with the local signatories. You've got a very diverse group of signatories - PRI is strong in Brazil and South America ...