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City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... structure and its existence as a statutory charge makes the EUAs a form of senior debt, with significantly less investment risk to investors. It also matches the duration of energy efficiency savings, Bocskay said. "The terms of EUA funding are actually ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... are sustainability indicators, and as long as we could get an investment approach on this sector that met our investment risk profile - low tracking error, low volatility - it allowed us to tilt away from the ESG risks and then towards better performing ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... overall risk budget, at 72%. "One of the more important findings is the contribution that policy risk makes to investment risk in a typical portfolio, if about 10% of risk is coming from policy uncertainly, then investors need to get on the front foot ...

NAB funds Melbourne building environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... structure and its existence as a statutory charge makes the EUAs a form of senior debt, with significantly less investment risk to investors. NAB, Low Carbon Australia and Eureka Funds Management developed the EUA finance product. Andrew Balzan, head ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreements vehicle for green investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... structure and its existence as a statutory charge makes the EUAs a form of senior debt, with significantly less investment risk to investors. "What this does, lenders don't have the ability to inhibit the normal collection processes that the council ...

Reports critique ASX companies' supply chain disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... lag in ASX-listed companies' management and disclosure of social and environmental supply chain issues poses an investment risk. But Neil of Net Balance notes there are increasing shifts in thinking as companies realise their interconnectedness with ...

ICMM warns of risks of differing carbon pricing policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Differences in carbon pricing policies in various countries and regions will cause variations in production costs for the mining industry, raising the possibility that production in one area will become less competitive than in others, the International ...

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... will grow and strengthen because of increased commitment to responsible investment. "Whether you're taking a pure investment risk perspective, or whether you're taking a reputational perspective, that is, we don't want to be seen as investing in or supporting ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Gillard government has created an expert review panel to advise on the design of the AU$10bn Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), which is expected to commence operations from 2013-2014. Jillian Broadbent, a board member of the Reserve Bank ...

Climate change issues integrated into investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
Institutional investors globally view climate change as a material investment risk/opportunity, and most frequently look to their listed equity portfolio when considering climate change issues, according to a Mercer study commissioned by international ...