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Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... corporate sustainability agenda may be seen as a luxury firms can't afford. Our story starts with recent studies on Australian national income by both the Treasury [1] and McKinsey & Company [2]. Economic measures like GDP, GNP, current accounts and ...

SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... hit "market like returns" of bond-plus. Because social enterprise financing is a relatively new idea to the domestic Australian market, SEFA has found that the work they are doing to build the pipeline of potential future projects is part of the capacity- ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... industries lag the mining and extractives sector in this recognition. "In the extractive industries, including the Australian mining industry, there is long-standing experience of the impacts of mining on the natural habitat. Around a quarter of the ...

Report: US$174bn global market for climate-themed bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... The second thing is that it identifies a liquid universe out there in international markets, mainly in Europe. For Australian investors that want an exposure to climate products, in the short term they'll have to look to Europe for a liquid market but ...

Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... December 2011. Offshore, our International Procurement Office (IPO) based in Hong Kong continues to procure goods for our Australian business and these make up 1% of our total procurement spend. The IPO gives us greater visibility and control of goods ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... of Victoria via the Department of Treasury and Finance. Ros McKay joined VFMC as governance manager in 2009 from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors. She speaks with The Sustainability Report about her remit and VFMC's view of ESG and ...