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NY fund invests $200m in climate change

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... York State Common Retirement fund invested $200 million in the FTSE Environmental Technology 50 and HSBC Global Climate Change Index. Thomas DiNapoli, the New York State Comptroller, invested the funds in line with the fund's Green Strategic Investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... International Industrial Relations Association World Congress 2009 begins in Sydney, while the fifth Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference begins in Melbourne. On Friday, the Australian sharemarket closed almost two per cent in ...

LGS wins green globe award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... independent panel of experts and were announced at a gala event hosted by the Hon. Carmel Tebbutt, Minister for Climate Change and the Environment.

Regnan names head of engagement

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Regnan has recruited CSR and climate change expert Julie Taylor-Mills as the new head of engagement. Taylor-Mills returns to Australian after four years working in the UK, where she consulted for Jupiter Asset Management, Futerra and the Climate Project. ...

Super must become more efficient: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... and his plans for the nation as it emerges from recession covering infrastructure policy, taxation, regulation, climate change, retirement income policy and health. "We need to encourage savings from an early age, and to improve the efficiency and investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... Batterham addresses the University of Western Australia's Institute of Advanced Studies on energy, minerals and climate change. The Opes Prime cases returns to court in Melbourne. On Monday, the Australian share market closed higher, with heavyweights ...

Super funds to re-jig mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... per cent of Australia's major superannuation funds are looking to change their investment mandates to factor in climate change issues, a survey found. The Climate Institute and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) survey found strong ...

Regnan to appoint new ESG research manager

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... Regnan is looking for a new ESG research manager after Nathan Fabian takes a new role at the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC). "We are sad to see Nathan move on but our loss is the IGCC's gain. Climate change is a major ESG ...

ESG a fiduciary duty: Sherry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... government's CPRS are still being resolved, carbon trading in itself is not the sole way Australia is addressing climate change. "The whole strategy is the CPRS being rolled in 2011 plus the expanded renewable energy targets plus encouraging investments ...

NCSF and Catholic Super to merge

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... Financial Services. The latter's chief executive Frank Pegan was elected as the chair of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) late last year, replacing the first and outgoing chair, Bob Welsh, chief executive at VicSuper. The board said it would ...