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Responsible investment reaches 50% total AUM: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... use responsible investment strategies, RIAA found. There has been strong demand by retail consumers for responsible investments - the rise in core responsible investment assets to nearly AU$32 billion has doubled In only two years. On the institutional ...

KPMG Australia buys Banarra

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... with Sydney Airport on their first sustainability report. See Also: KPMG: top global miners make $1.2bn in social investments Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

UCA Funds Management select Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... status will remove exemptions provided to charitable and religious investment bodies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). UCA Funds Management will re-register two of ...

UCA Funds Management to convert funds to MIS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... status will remove exemptions provided to charitable and religious investment bodies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). UCA Funds Management is an entity of the Uniting ...

NCD launches Soft Commodities Forest-risk Assessment Tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... 30 financial evaluated have policies in place to identify, manage and control or mitigate risks linked to loans or investments in companies involved in soft commodities, particularly soy, palm oil and beef. However, few financial institutions are systematically ...

Investors consider corporate pay links to climate change goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... more towards diversified miners. You can have a conversation around the risk adjusted returns of different types of investments, you can seek to ensure that climate change risks are being factored in, and that's likely to drive the shift to decarbonising ...

CEFC reports investing $500 million in last year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... should focus on large-scale solar instead. "Receipt of the draft investment mandate does not impact on existing CEFC investments and co-financing programs," CEFC said in a statement about the proposed changes. "These and the CEFC's investment activities ...

Climate Bonds Initiative gain insurance body partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... institutional investors, with about USD$30 trillion in global assets under management. Much of the insurance industry's investments are in the form of bonds, which is why the Climate Bonds Initiative is a natural partner for us. Green bonds underpin ...

Corporate Human Rights Benchmark issues draft indicators

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... beverage/agriculture, apparel, and extractives. 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 ...

CEFC signs $50m asset financing agreement with Firstmac

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... of a solar installation. "Solar technologies make up just over 33% of the CEFC's committed and close to conclusion investments," Yates said. "Australians are already backing solar in their homes and there are also significant opportunities for commercial ...