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Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... relationships with some of the smaller banks, and we are developing that. We have to further develop the Indigenous loan portfolio, and that means a fair bit of effort. We are also about evangelising what we're doing and showing people what can be done." ...

Northern Trust launches emerging markets ESG index, fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Northern Trust has created an emerging markets equities index integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) screens and has launched a passive pooled fund managed to the index. Northern Trust has built the index in collaboration with MSCI ESG ...

City of Melbourne certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... making improvements to Melbourne Town Hall which will result in significant savings in lighting costs," said Environment Portfolio Chair Councillor Arron Wood. "We built Australia's first six-star green star new office design building - CH2 - which is ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Michael Walsh is the recently named executive director and CEO of UCA Funds Management, an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, which manages more than AU$800m in ethical portfolios on behalf of church bodies, other ...

GRESB hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... to working with Elsbeth to continue GRESB's development and to realize its ambition to become the global standard for portfolio level sustainability benchmarking in the real estate sector." In the 2012 survey, 450 property companies and funds submitted ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... manage investment risks, a duty to consider the long-term perspective of investments, and a duty to diversify across a portfolio. "There are three fundamental ways to affect change in this area - legislation, litigation and then there are voluntary codes ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Responsible Investment, uses ESG metrics in two ways - as part of its investment process in its high conviction equities portfolio, and in a more targeted way in its socially responsible investment (SRI) portfolio, which uses both overweights towards ...

Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The Future Fund will exclude tobacco companies from its investment portfolio, the Board of Guardians has announced. The fund owns stock in 14 companies in involved in tobacco production, with a combined worth of approximately AU$222 million at the end ...

AMP Capital notes increased engagement, board diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Corporate boards are more willing to engage with investors around governance issues beyond remuneration into areas including board independence, succession planning and related party transactions, which AMP Capital attributes to the impact of the two-strikes ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics can be used as a quantitative measure to construct an equities portfolio that generate improved active returns and better ESG ratings, according to research from MSCI. Michael Salvatico MSCI have released ...