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Challenge your consultants on ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... as director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva and a senior adviser to the Secretary General of the U.N. Earth Summit in 1992. He has written a book titled 'Investing in a Sustainable World'. "It's your money or it's ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... Bank council member Axel Weber warning that there is a threat of "grave contagion effects." But I think OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria is more on the ball on this one when he said last week that, "It's not a question of the danger of contagion ...

Contagion has already happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... be higher now that a bigger Eurozone member had been downgraded? Told you it's already a "known known." OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria put this so very nicely, "It's not a question of the danger of contagion; contagion has already happened." Speaking ...

SelectingSuper unveils 2009 top super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... highlight of my time in the superannuation industry was when I did get the personally signed invitation from the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan [and] I joined a small group of people that worked on and developed what is now the United Nations Principles ...

Corporate governance needs national voice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... to effectively manage corporate governance issues, according to a corporate governance expert. Jamie Allen, secretary general at the Asian Corporate Governance Association in Hong Kong, said the bulk of corporate governance action occurs outside of Asia ...

China caps executive pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... monitoring on its enterprise, and the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) was of no exception," Tang Min, deputy secretary general of the China Development Research Foundation told the ChinaView news service. The salary restrictions are an important development ...

Bennelong signs ex-ARIA chief Gibbs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... held a number of roles on the ASX and Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan also invited Gibbs to help formalise what would become the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... the fundamentals of demand and supply. Oliver's comments come as oil approaches a new record and after OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri told Reuters that oil speculation is so extreme daily trading volumes are now 15 times bigger than actual ...

Toy story

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... inspectors have already found approximately 20 per cent of factories failed to make the grade. Michael O'Sullivan, Secretary General of the EU Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, told the BBC that closing factories in a war on product safely is not ultimately ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
... $1.44, or 1.7 per cent, at $84.19 a barrel, trading $82.84 to $84.49, which was also a record. Earlier, OPEC Secretary General Adbullah al-Badri said prices were high due to refinery bottlenecks, seasonal maintenance, ongoing geopolitical problems in ...