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Australian Ethical HQ wins Banksia award

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
Ethical fund manager Australian Ethical Investment put its ESG theories to practice when it won the prestigious Banksia Environmental Foundation award for its new environmentally friendly headquarters. Australian Ethical Investment's new office, Trevor ...

Social banking on the rise

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Social banking platforms will capture 10 per cent of the worldwide retail lending and financial planning market in two years time, according to Gartner. The term, social banking includes trends such as green practices, social entrepreneurship and peer ...

Investors influence credit ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... prompt action to manage or eliminate conflicts in a comprehensive fashion and improve any practices that expose the CRA to ethical problems. And this may go beyond what has already been proposed by the SEC and other global regulators." Many respondents ...

Planners set to Ignite the Difference

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... financial planners to learn presentation skills, develop an appropriate business succession plan and find out more about ethical decision making. Keynote speakers include founder of the Choir of Hard Knocks, Jonathan Welch, CSIRO executive, James Moody ...

FTSE100 shines in ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
FTSE100 companies received the thumbs up from an ethical investment researcher, which found a four-fold increase in UK companies with 'exceptional' green policies last year compared to four years ago. For the past three years, FTSE100 companies on the ...

UN PRI needs public reporting

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... do something about it?" said Sullivan. Sullivan was in Australia this month as a speaker at an ESG Forum presented by Ethical Investor.

GES and Limestone launch Eastern Europe SRI fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... environmental and social risks. "The markets of Eastern Europe offer a new opportunity for investors who want to maintain their ethical standards," said Veronika Juchnewitsch, Limestone Investment Management head of SRI Investments. "We believe forward ...

Getting ethics back on track

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... president Walton Rogers hammered home the importance of establishing a core set of ethics when executing day-to-day business. "Ethical behaviour is key to a successful business - you can't run away from it, and we all need it," said Rogers. "This is ...

Forum 'gets real' on ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Sustainability magazine, Ethical Investor, is holding a one-day forum to ensure investment managers understand how to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment processes. Michael Walsh, Ethical Investor executive ...

CSRF drops SIM for AMP

Catholic Super & Retirement Fund (CSRF) has given AMP Capital Investors an ethical investment mandate after Suncorp Investment Management informed the fund that it would be closing its Ethical Balanced Portfolio option once all current investors have ...