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Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... skill and diligence, a duty to prudently manage investment risks, a duty to consider the long-term perspective of investments, and a duty to diversify across a portfolio. Exercising those legal duties has revolved around considerations of retirement ...

Christian Super selects three impact investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Christian Super CEO. "We have a member of our investment team and some of his resources are allocated to look at impact investments that resonate with our members," Murphy said. "Naturally, the investments have to show risk adjusted return in an appropriate ...

Asia investments in sustainable strategies hit US$44.9B: ASrIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... markets, the report found. ASrIA uses the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA)'s definition of sustainable investments, which includes: "1. Negative/exclusionary screening 2. Positive/best-in-class screening 3. Norms-based screening 4. Integration ...

Five investors join initiative to grow green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Bonds, calling on governments to grow the global green bond market. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative chair Calvert Investments, Addenda Capital, F&C Investments, MN Investments and NEI Investments have signed on to the Investor Statement on Green ...

PRI announces new Advisory Council members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Management, and will take up the investment manager position. PRI also announced that Mark Chaloner, assistant director (investments), West Midlands Pension Fund and Priya Maithur, vice president, Board of Administration, CalPERS, have automatically ...

Financial System Inquiry recommends on impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... University of Sydney published two reports - Impact Investment: Perspectives for Australian Superannuation Funds and Impact Investments: Perspectives for Australian Charitable Trusts and Foundations - that provided recommendations and analysis around ...

ASX50 companies not making strategic case for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... risk and value generation, which will impact on reporting from next year. For example, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released Regulatory Guide 247 (RG 247), Effective disclosure in an operating and financial review, opening ...

Altius Asset Management launches sustainable bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... of Altius. "We were aware that a lot of investors who want to invest witha responsible/sustainable overlay to their investments could do in equities with a fair bit of choice, but there's not a lot with respect to bonds, and often times they invest in ...

Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... appreciation, because you all pay, and superannuation fund members will pay in years to come. [T]hese are long lived investments, people wait for their retirement for a very long time, and during that period of time, if we don't act on this issue, costs ...

CEFC looks to increase investment in bioenergy projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is looking to expand its investments in bioenergy technologies, according to Ted Dow, CEFC CIO. Ted Dow, CEFC CIO Currently, bioenergy investments at the CEFC stand at 10% or AU$100 million of the overall ...