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Elana Rubin nabs property board appointment

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... and a member of Chief Executive Women, of the Federal Government's Infrastructure Australia Council and of the Climate Change Authority. Rubin recently resigned from the board of industry fund AustralianSuper and the board of TAL, two roles that she ...

Mercer tests the water of 'fair capitalism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... portfolio in the next three, five, 10, 15, 20 years," Birgden said. Among others, this includes the economic impacts of climate change. It largely falls on asset managers to ensure that companies in which funds are invested are paying sufficient attention ...

Elana Rubin appointed MLC director

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... Advisory, a member of Chief Executive Women, of the Federal Government's Infrastructure Australia Council and of the Climate Change Authority. Rubin is also fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Institute of Management ...

Global cooling on carbon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... think gold's recent swan dive was unnerving, spare a thought for those who bought carbon credits - that's where the climate change has really happened. Gold has recouped some of its losses over the past two trading sessions, but it remains 26.9% below ...

Climate change already affecting investments: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013

ESG RA awards Citi, Credit Suisse research

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... diversity on boards, well-articulated policies on dealing with bribery and corruption, and better understanding of climate change issues in both board and senior management level.

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... A survey of the world's biggest pension funds and insurance companies has uncovered a reckless mismanagement of climate change risk, said a prominent economist. Yesterday the not-for-profit group the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AOPD) released what ...

Insto's ignoring climate change

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
Climate Change is an issue that has never been raised at board level in some of Australia's largest financial institutions, said a prominent economist. Just like during the global financial crisis, when sub-prime risk left many reeling, the investment ...

AIST CEO resigns for UN post

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... Australia's $500 billion not-for-profit super sector, which had led the field in the sustainable investing and climate change awareness. "There is a strong match between the objectives of long term, institutional investors and the aims of the PRI. "I ...

Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... the world continue to build understanding of how to protect themselves from the market and physical impacts of climate change, the Future Fund thinks it is immune. It needs to come clean." It's understood that the former head of the Future Fund David ...