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Forthcoming GRESB report to benchmark RE environmental, social performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
In September, the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) will release its second survey assessing the environmental and social performance of public and private real estate investments. GRESB will be used by institutional investors to engage ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... disclosure, or engage companies to provide more data around issues like climate change, through projects like the CDP and so forth. Q: Do you appoint manages based on ESG characteristics? RM: As set out in the ESG policy, we will take ESG into account ...

Benchmarking superannuation funds' sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... matters. We want to see them behaving in a sustainable manner, looking to monitor and reduce their carbon footprint and so forth. Finally, superannuation funds should be actively engaging/influencing members and other service providers to behave in a ...

Swan: carbon price vital for first-rate, first-world economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... modern economy and a carbon price, or you can have neither." Swan spoke at the Press Club in the continuing push to put forth the government's case for its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). Last week, Professor Ross Garnaut released an update ...