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LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Two, the [other factors] e.g. gender equality or GINI co-efficients, are more of a beta argument. We are confident that Investing in these countries is a better bet because they have more sable and cohesive societies, with less chance of riots and uprisings." ...

Australian Ethical Investments faces EGM board spill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Ethical are a boutique manager in a very small niche but a very particular niche," Xirakis said. "The niche is ethical investing, high conviction investing. The business has an embedded charter in the constitution on how it should invest and how it should ...

GBST, CAER to offer quantitative ESG data tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... narrow the criteria. They have volumes of level 3 data. We've tried to select the main things that would be an alert to investing in a company. There are four E, four S and four G factors that have ranking of one to five and they accumulate into an overall ...

bankmecu, Foresters Community Finance partner on loan scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... safe and secure products, they also want a responsible return. Part of the way we can get that responsible return is by investing in projects with community organisations." Lynch emphasised that any organisation that came to bankmecu as part of this ...

LGS audit finds ASX has higher carbon, lower ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... for a similar mandate in Australia. "In international equities, we have an allocation to a specialist thematic manager investing in low carbon industries like clean tech, energy efficiency, good sustainable products etc.," he said. "It doesn't invest ...

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... rewarded for sharing information, coordinating with others, experimenting, making mistakes, and innovating. Three, not investing in capabilities to build a learning organization that is able to organically adapt to, and take advantage of, disruptive ...

Industry welcomes CEFC expert review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... recommended to the review panel that the CEFC focus on addressing the underlying factors that tipped the balance against investing in projects that had gotten to the point of needing commercial investment. "If you look at the comments from stakeholders ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... that would make their eyes glaze over." Additionally, SROI may also be misleading that many of the impacts of social investing are not felt for many years as the funding and the subsequent programs that are funded unrolls through a community. "I think ...

LGS wins SuperRatings Infinity Award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... owner and so we're longer term.... [J]ust like every sector, super funds have to gain a license to operate. We are here investing on behalf of member; our members are strongly involved in the area of sustainability work. We find what we do gives a line ...

New South Wales announces first social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... to manage the risk return ratio and offer three tiers of risk, essentially. That's what we've needed in social impact investing- a tiered approach." Now that Westpac, CBA and the Benevolent Society have been tapped, the next phase of negotiations with ...