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Principles for Responsible Investment: Fiduciary Duty – Coming of Age
Unfortunately, fiduciary duty can be a contested term when it comes to investments, with different legal interpretations in countries around the world. Fiduciary obligations exist to ensure that those who manage other people’s money act responsibly and in the interests
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IFC: The Art and Science of Benefits Sharing
Non-renewable natural resource projects – that is oil, gas, and minerals – are usually seen as part of a nation’s wealth. Accordingly, their use for the long-term sustainable development of a country is a prime objective of any legitimate government.
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SWIFT Enters Into Real-Time Retail Domestic Payments
New project win to build an innovative solution for domestic payments in Australia is the first major milestone for the cooperative. SWIFT announces plans to develop real-time retail domestic payment solutions. SWIFT is creating an offering that allows domestic retail
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World Bank Group, FAO Aim to Boost Women’s Land Ownership in Central Europe
Women’s land ownership in the Western Balkans often involves a complex web of statutory, customary, and religious laws. World Bank and FAO teams worked with national partners to devise 11-month pilot work plans for their countries to boost female land
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Why Business Leaders Support a Price on Carbon
Climate change can put the resources, supply chains, and infrastructure that companies rely on at risk, while also threatening to roll back decades of global development progress. Business leaders recognize the risks. Several have started to use an internal “shadow
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From Australia to the World – Rupert Murdoch: The Future of Newspapers in the Age of the Internet
Australia is simply not big enough for Rupert Murdoch, though the country did give him his first break into publishing and broadcasting: Two Adelaide city newspapers and a small town radio station in the outback. From these rather humble beginnings,
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CFI.co Meets the Chairman of Farazad, Investments, Inc.: Korosh Farazad
It is not often one finds the words banking and ethics in the same sentence. However, ethics is a core value and a founding principle for Farazad Investments Inc (FII). The founder and Chairman of the company, Korosh Farazad, adheres
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Revenue Watch: 4 out of 5 Companies Fail in Good Governance
The Resource Governance Index (RGI) measures the quality of governance in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries. From highly ranked countries like Norway, the United Kingdom and Brazil to lowranking countries like Qatar, Turkmenistan and Myanmar, the
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Prof Kearney Goes for Triple Crown
Prof. Colm Kearney is currently dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University. With many Asian students now looking to Australia for their higher business education as an alternative to US or European schools, Prof. Kearney’s international
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Gillard Under Pressure: Unfairly So?
Julia Gillard was born in Barry, South Wales in 1961 but renounced her UK citizenship on entering the Australian parliament in 1988. Her family had moved to Australia when Julia was five years old. She was the first PM since
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