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Impact Investing Australia launches guide to define social costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... control group." Using this guide can provide a frame for investors to analyse risks and opportunities for social impact investments, Pezzullo said. "Social impact funds [are] really new and thus flexibly and adaptability is critical, and it means that ...

Investor groups publish real estate climate risk guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... contribute up to 30% of GHG emissions, noted Tatiana Bosteels, the guide's co-author and head of responsible property investments at Hermes IM, chair of UNEP FI's property working group and IIGCC's property work programme. "Not least after COP, governments ...

Impact investing key trend for 2016: AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... first fund. Those funds have all been invested, and AXA IM will develop a second fund, which will focus on impact investments in sectors that provide environmental solutions that have social impacts. The second impact fund of funds will place environmental ...

Fund members concerned about climate change risk: CFGAM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... investment in fossil fuel companies. The survey also showed that a majority of respondents would like their fund to reduce investments in fossil fuel companies, and they would consider moving all or part of their pension to a low-carbon or clean-energy ...

Nordea joins Corporate Human Rights Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... investor expectations on human rights." The benchmark has been developed by fund managers Aviva Investors and Calvert Investments, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, an international NGO, research provider EIRIS, the Institute for Human Rights ...

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... developments in investment around environmental and social issues, both in terms of divestment and in terms of positive investments such as within the impact investing space. Sustainability issues are on the agenda of corporate directors. Directors are ...

Australian Ethical Investment AUM up 13% in Q4

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... such as healthcare. "We're out of resources, so we've benefitted in a sense from that," Vernon said. "Our positive investments - we invest a lot in healthcare, we invest a lot in technology, we have a portfolio which is naturally set up to cyclically ...

HESTA allocates $6.7m to affordable housing development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... terms of the asset allocation," Learnmonth said. "We're looking at the full range - debt, mezzanine and equity style investments. Given that we're looking to do transactions of scale, between $2 and $20 million transactions, then it will invariably lead ...

CEFC receives new investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... Corporation board chair, in a statement to the ministers. The changes are not retrospective and will not affect existing investments. "The CEFC has a well-developed pipeline of projects that it is reviewing," CEFC said in a statement. "Since beginning ...

ARENA allocates funds for biomass research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... suppliers and end users and support local businesses, Frischknecht said. ARENA has allocated money to other projects and investments in biomass and bioenergy - last year, ARENA provided AU$5.2 million in funding to Renergi for a pilot scale biofuel project. ...