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Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... bonds from issuers such as the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Nordic Investment Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the IRDB, the Asian Development Bank and the African Development Bank not only because they "constitute the vast ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... education resource to increase access to financial education via local seminars in branches, online education and personal finance and business management short courses. This year, the bank also identified three future areas of materiality - demographic ...

Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... workplace culture. While benchmarking of these measures is unavailable for 2011, both of these results are comparable to finance industry medians from 2010." The bank is also continuing its work to increasing the representation of women in executive ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Investors Group on Climate Change (IGCC)'s new Low-Carbon Finance Working Group will play a stakeholder role with "green" financing institutions both domestically and overseas, consulting with the institutions being established by governments to ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreement for Melbourne property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... a media announcement by the City of Melbourne. NAB, Low Carbon Australia and Eureka Funds Management developed the EUA finance product. "The funding solution allows City of Melbourne to dually incentivise property owners and their tenants to upgrade ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), along with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and the Advisory Council of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), released a joint report and ...

Community finance draws eye of institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Foresters Community Finance, a Brisbane-based community development finance institution, believes that recent allocations by the federal government and superannuation fund Christian Super demonstrate that they can provide risk adjusted return that is ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Gillard government has created an expert review panel to advise on the design of the AU$10bn Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), which is expected to commence operations from 2013-2014. Jillian Broadbent, a board member of the Reserve Bank ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... infrastructure projects such as gas-fired electricity generators through initiatives such as the AU$10bn Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), which will provide loans, loan guarantees and equity investments in projects. Hobley of Norton Rose said ...

Christian Super allocates $6m to social enterprise fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... superannuation fund has made an AU$6m commitment to a social enterprise fund run by Brisbane-based Foresters Community Finance. Foresters' Social Enterprise Solutions brand is one of two fund managers selected by the Department of Education, Employment ...