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UN's ESG principles gaining traction

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
The latest United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) report reveals broadly positive trends, with the majority of large institutional signatories appointing dedicated responsible investment staff and 88 per cent putting environmental ...

Aviva bags diversity award

Savings and insurance giant Aviva won the United Nations' Global Diversity and Innovation Award for its international diversity programmes. The judges chose Aviva for its"innovative" approach to embedding diversity within the company. Two years ago ...

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... credibility in that area. There is also a $40 million investment planned towards reducing methane emissions. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization recently reported that methane - 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping ...

Portfolio Partners offsets co2 with tree-planting program

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... established itself in the Australian market for sustainable investment, becoming the first fund manager to sign the United Nations 'Principles for Responsible Investment', and launching their own Sustainability Fund in 2006. Through the tree-planting ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
... worries about inflation stirred earlier in the week. Iran's determination to enrich uranium in defiance of the United Nations also made stock investors nervous. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 54.64 points, or 0.43 per cent, at 12,683.77. The ...

Aviva goes green with carbon outputs

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
... partnership with Conservation Volunteers Australia to plant native Australian flora, along with being a signatory to the United Nations Environmental Program Financial Initiatives." The carbon neutralisation program will operate on a retrospective basis ...

It's time to work together: MDRT

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... 30,000 members worldwide in 70 countries. "We translate our annual general meeting into more languages than the United Nations does," said Harriman. Harriman is also here to tell the Australian market about the changing face of MDRT and what it could ...

Asset Super Board looks to Steer straight ahead

National director of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Australia, Naomi Steer, has been appointed to the Board of Asset Super to take the place of former speaker of the NSW Upper House John Johnson. Steer's experience has mainly ...

Global investment flows seen recovering after three-year slide

... into countries continued to decline last year, falling by 18% to US$560 billion dollars from the 2002 figure, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in an annual report. But the outflow of FDI mainly from wealthy countries ...

IMF says world economic outlook rosy

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2004
... rosiest in 10 years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today. In its twice-yearly economic scorecard, the United Nations lender upgraded its forecasts for global growth on the back of a pick-up in the United States and Asia. In good news for ...