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CEFC commits to Westpac Efficient Financing Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has committed AU$200 million to the Westpac Efficient Financing Program, which will finance business investment in solar, energy efficient technologies, and low emissions vehicles. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy ...

Super funds on ESG engagement at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
Superannuation fund trustees are increasingly seeing environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration as part of the process of managing funds for members over the long term, and view engagement with invested companies as a tool in that process. ...

UCA Funds Management hires Benjamin Pedley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
UCA Funds Management has hired Benjamin Pedley as its new director investments. Benjamin Pedley, director investments, UCA Funds Management Pedley comes to UCA Funds Management from HSBC Private Bank based in Hong Kong, where he was head of investment ...

AODP releases 2016 Global Climate 500 Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
Three Australian superannuation funds have achieved the highest mark of AAA in the 2016 Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP)'s 2016 benchmark index. AODP this week released the 2016 Global Climate 500 Index, which rates the world's 500 biggest asset ...

ESG integration continues to spread across Asia: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into investment processes continue to grow across Asia Pacific markets, but in diverse fashions and influenced by variable regulatory and market considerations, according to Ronnie ...

LQRA to deepen verification collaboration with CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LQRA), a provider of professional assurance services, will deepen its verification collaboration with CDP, and will focus more on providing best practice resources for companies. LQRA is one of the founding members ...

Companies advised to stress test climate change scenarios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
This week, representatives from Australia and more than 150 nations gathered in New York to sign off on the Paris Agreement. Even as governments around the world face calls to set policies and legislation to fulfil their commitments, there is also new ...

FlexiGroup prices first green asset-backed security transaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
FlexiGroup, an ASX-listed financial services group, has priced AU$260 million in asset-based securities (ABS), including an AU$50 million green tranche, certified by the global Climate Bonds Initiative. The ABS is supported by a pool of Australian unsecured ...

Corporates implementing social return on investment frameworks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Corporate, public and not-for-profit organisations in Australia are increasingly setting frameworks to measure social return on investment (SROI) of their business activities and integrating those metrics and analysis into their business strategies. ...

Investors should measure climate risks: South Pole Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Investors should systematically measure climate risks for their investments as well as develop specific internal capabilities in the area of climate change, South Pole Group has recommended to the Senate Inquiry on Carbon Risk Disclosure. Max Horster ...