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Engagement a tool for investment stewardship: RIAA conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... impacts that can result from engagements with companies as well. For UCA Funds Management, engagement in collaborative coalition with investors and civil society presents an opportunity to find solutions for social issues like financial exclusion, online ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... investor networks in North America (Ceres' INCR), Asia (AIGCC) and Australia and New Zealand (IGCC) in the Global Investor Coalition. "Some of the largest oil and gas companies by revenue are based in Asia, in the fastest growing economies in the world," ...

Cash Converters to pay more than $12 million after ASIC investigation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... internally-generated assumed benchmark that had no relationship to the real expenses of the individual consumer." Last year, a coalition including UCA Funds Management and seven other organisations, including other investors, engagement specialists ...

Oliver Yates to step down as Clean Energy Finance Corporation CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... projects with a total value of AU$5.7 billion. During this time, the CEFC operated on a political knife edge. When the Coalition government led by then-Prime Minister Tony Abbot was elected in 2013, the CEFC Act was targeted for repeal as part of the ...

Australian Ethical Investment engages on sustainability of meat

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical Investment has joined a coalition of 40 institutional investors engaging with 16 multinational food companies over concerns of material risks posed by industrial animal production. Ella McKinley, ethics analyst, Australian Ethical ...

UCA Funds Management adds Nine Entertainment Company to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... engaged on efforts to mitigate or limit the negative impacts of gambling. Earlier this year, UCA Funds Management formed a coalition with consumer rights advocates and financial counsellors to engage with major banks to limit online gamblers' ability ...

International Integrated Reporting Council hires Richard Howitt as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... and society." Howitt also thanked Druckman for his leadership as outgoing CEO. IIRC was founded in 2011 as a global coalition of regulators, investors, companies, standard setters, the accounting profession and NGOs and has developed the principles of ...

EY, UN Global Compact evaluate state of sustainable supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... around supply chain that drove the sector forward, such as telecommunications with EICC (Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition) and the Dodd-Frank Act Section 1502 on conflict minerals in the resources sector, and financial services with UNEP Finance ...

Natural Capital Protocol launched worldwide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
A coalition of global stakeholders have launched the Natural Capital Protocol, a framework designed to assist companies in measuring and valuing use of and impact on natural capital. Andrew Petersen, CEO, Sustainable Business Australia The Natural Capital ...

Stakeholders assess ESG policy priorities for Parliament

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... Australian Electoral Commission had not finalised the vote count, but it seems near certain that the Liberal/National coalition led by Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull will lead government with support from independent members. The composition of the Senate ...