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Community Sector Banking to extend microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... well for them." Meanwhile, Community Sector Banking is also looking at developing its services around managing impact investing services geared towards philanthropies. Philanthropy Australia recently announced that they will be working on a longer term ...

AMP Capital invests in North American wind farm portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
AMP Capital is investing US$100 million with Capistrano Wind Partners, a developer, owner and operator of a diversified portfolio of large-scale wind energy projects in North America. Capistrano Wind Partners was formed last year by Edison Mission Energy ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... investments across asset classes, from listed equities and fixed income to hedge funds and microfinance. Managed sustainable investing portfolios in Australia has increased by 33% between 2010 and 2012, from US$13.2bn to US$17.5bn. The report also noted ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... pollution control, waste management, environmental support services, sustainable resource management and green bonds/impact investing. "Unlisted alternatives can form a hedge or be a way of diversifying risk for institutional investor," said Helga Birgden ...

70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... have nearly doubled their investment in emissions reductions initiatives in one year - in 2011, 39% of members reported investing in emissions reductions initiatives. While the percentage of suppliers investing in initiatives remained flat, the absolute ...

Net Balance launches research and development institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... research, social impact measurement and knowledge exchange activities, and was responsible for CSI's research into impact investing and social finance, including assessing the feasibility of implementing social impact bonds in New South Wales and what ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Birgden At a global level, investors are putting more money towards impact investment J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently released their third annual survey into the impact investing sphere - Perspectives on Progress. ...

Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Concomitant with institutional investors developing their processes for evaluating and overseeing potential impact investments and fund managers in that sphere and working on appropriate benchmarks for measuring financial, social and environmental impacts ...

ASrIA: US$74bn in sustainable investment assets in Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... noted, while Japan's US$10bn was 0.2% out of a total of US$4.4tr in assets under management in that country. "Sustainable investing in Asia has become a significant force over the last five years, as global investors deploy a greater percentage of their ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... over a largely responsible company, and its reporting. © 2012 Dowse CSP, partners on corporate sustainability, ESG investing and related actions and communication: www.dowse-csp.com.au. [1] http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/problem-gamblers-cant-judge-cost-of-pokies--others-have-no-excuse-20110705-1h0ol.html ...