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Investment professionals identify key ESG themes for 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... increase in cybersecurity spending." Symantic also pointed to BMW as being "well prepared to comply with tightening regulations around self-driving cars." "We would say generally speaking that the research on data security has targeted the usual suspects ...

Renew Financial on PACE, US residential renewable energy market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... Establishing PACE financing models involves getting state governing authorities to put PACE legislation into their regulations, and then getting local governing authorities to take action to join each program. PACE financing models are available to residents ...

EY, UN Global Compact evaluate state of sustainable supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... impacts in paper and timber," Jeyaretnam said. "In other sectors there have been international industry initiatives or regulations around supply chain that drove the sector forward, such as telecommunications with EICC (Electronic Industry Citizenship ...

Companies, CEOs, chairs seen as unethical: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... enhances operations and underpins social license to operate." Survey results demonstrate that while government laws, regulations and financial penalties are seen to influence ethical behaviour, they are not considered as important a factor as the example ...

WBCSD, CDSB, Ecodesk create Reporting Exchange

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... created a free global sustainability reporting knowledge platform. The Reporting Exchange will " identify the reporting regulations, rules, policies, practices, initiatives, standards, codes and guidance which make up the reporting landscape," and will ...

Cbus signs Global Statement on Investor Obligations and Duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... failure of fiduciary duty." Cbus Super is the first Australian investor to sign the statement. "It's clear that the regulations sitting around the obligations and requirements of investors is patchy, and certainly on the back of the work undertaken by ...

Research project to explore evidence-based whistleblowing reforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... in evidenced-based recommendations and guidelines that can be implemented not only as potential reforms to law and regulations, but also as best practices for corporate policies and improvements to corporate culture, Fox said. "I don't think it's about ...

Nordea joins Corporate Human Rights Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark Steering Committee. We define responsibility as observance of existing laws, regulations, relevant rules and international conventions, including human rights. "Human rights is one focus area for our stewardship activities. ...

Investors question payday lenders at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... (NCCP) and other legislation governing standards for responsible lending. We also note that compliance with these regulations presents risk for shareholders in the company." Cash Converters provided a verbal response to Walsh's questions at their AGM ...

RIAA calls for actions to create responsible financial markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... investing, Northern Trust Asset Management. While hard laws can be used to regulate market behaviour, such as laws and regulations to address failures in financial markets and provide signals, such as a price on carbon, soft laws - regulatory bodies ...