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Climate Bond Standard to establish water investment criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
A Climate Bonds Expert Working Group is developing criteria for water investments that can be used to back green and climate bonds certified under the Climate Bond Standard. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative chair The working group was brought together ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... can rely upon." As a result of those factors, institutional investors have a duty to evaluate the potential risk to investments brought by fossil fuels and carbon emissions intensity, and to make decisions relative to their portfolio, their governance ...

Lonsec: responsible investment equity funds outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... struggled the last two or three years, and so that's a free kick in terms of performance. But you still have to have an investments team that is appropriately resourced and finding good ideas. The better performing [RI] funds have good stock pickers ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... sustainability risks and, if it does, how it manages or intends to manage those risks." The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) last year released Regulatory Guide 247 (RG 247), Effective disclosure in an operating and financial review ...

ARENA, NT government fund $55m PV project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... of solar/diesel hybrid systems in delivering cost-effective, reliable and safe power to remote locations." ARENA's investments were made to advance renewable energy technologies and hasten commercialisation by driving down cost, Frischknecht said. See ...

Local Government Super enhances carbon-related screens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... an important part of the picture in the energy matrix in the future." By removing the exclusion on nuclear energy investments, 48 nuclear energy companies will become potentially investible, and of that 48, 18 companies meet LGS's ESG screen from a safety ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... 15% allocated to international shares. Within the income allocation, 15 to 45% is allocated towards interest bearing investments and 5-20% is allocated to cash. The fund features screens for ethical investments and environmental, social and government ...

KPMG: top global miners make $1.2bn in social investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Mining, metals and engineering companies make billions of dollars of social investments, yet few companies report on the impacts these programs are having, according to KPMG. Carl Adams, head of mining, KPMG Australia KPMG's Global Mining Institute ...

IGCC calls on PM to retain Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... energy assets," he said. All of the suggested amendments to the policies would undermine existing renewable energy investments and halt future investments, IGCC said. "Investors are aware of the need to transition to a low carbon economy and include ...

Catholic Super makes case for global climate policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... uniform carbon pricing regime to set a level playing field and to assist in setting the risk/return parameters for investments for institutional portfolios. "Our preference is to invest in areas where it does good for the environment and fits our risk ...