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ANZ, GPT Group named 2012 DJSI supersector leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... "Across the bank we have worked hard to improve our performance through initiatives such as our target to increase the finance we provide to the renewables sector or through the work we've done to improve financial literacy in underserved communities ...

Clean Energy Council: keep Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... submission to the Climate Change Authority, CEC also said that the RET should not be impacted by the launch of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). "The objectives of the CEFC are to accelerate the deployment of emerging clean energy technologies," ...

Low Carbon Australia and Quantum Power offer biogas services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... rendering plant at Beaudesert in Queensland." For its part, Low Carbon Australia will be able to assist with providing finance for qualifying projects. "Low Carbon Australia is able to work with Quantum Power and its clients to enable these biogas projects ...

CEFC Chair Jillian Broadbent to quit as member of ASX board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) Chair Jillian Broadbent will retire from the board of the ASX as of the company's 5 October annual general meeting (AGM). Broadbent is leaving the ASX board to focus on her new role at the CEFC, ASX said in an ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... the so-called Walmart effect in greening local and subregional supply chains." Van der Lugt noted that the International Finance Corporation now expects project developers, and banks who finance them, to apply no net loss approaches to biodiversity impact. ...

Industry leaders establish Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
A group of professionals from the banking and finance industry have established the Banking and Finance Oath (BFO), an organisation that seeks to restore trust and encourage ethical behaviour in the financial services industry. Stephen Dunne, AMP Capital ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Jillian Broadbent has been named chair of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), with Michael Carapiet, Ian Moore, Anna Skarbek and Andrew Stock also named to the CEFC board. Broadbent, a member of the board of the Reserve Bank, chaired the CEFC ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund invests in Swanston St retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... first agreement with an owners corporation, an ownership structure that has traditionally faced challenges in accessing finance for retrofits, Sustainable Melbourne Fund said. "[O]wners corporations have found it almost impossible to access capital for ...

ANZ a leader in financial inclusion, with scope to expand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... default rate of 2%. But changes to the banking environment in the past six years mean that there is wider availability of finance to people with low incomes, including Centrelink advance and other programs operated by other finance providers like the ...

Sustainability reports a driver of action and engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... where we should invest or not invest," said David Atkin, Cbus CEO. "We're long term investors. We know that much of the finance world operates on a short-term cycle and so therefore a whole lot of essential risks and opportunities are missed in the short ...