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QIC invests $800m in Powering Australian Renewables Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... infrastructure investors for the development of large-scale renewable energy projects," said Andy Vesey, AGL managing director and CEO. "PARF is a major step forward in helping to unlock growth in renewable generation - but other challenges remain, first ...

Treasury Corporation of Victoria issues green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... be the first semi sovereign issuer in the world to issue a CBI certified Green Bond," said Bill Whitford, TCV managing director. "This transaction has allowed TCV to support not only the state's investments in climate mitigation and adaptation, but it ...

Companies, CEOs, chairs seen as unethical: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
Australians perceive large corporations, the banking, finance and insurance sector, and politicians at every level of government as unethical, according to a new Ethics Index released by the Governance Institute of Australia. Steven Burrell, chief executive ...

NAB finances third NSW social impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... successful and scalable, NAB will seek to expand the arrangement by bringing in third party financing, said James Waddell, NAB director capital financing solutions. "The program is being run initially as a trial, and once it proves itself, then we'd ...

Mirvac partners with YWCA NSW for social enterprise HQ cafe

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... about how we invest in our communities to create social impact," said Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, said Mirvac CEO and managing director. "Our new headquarters at 200 George Street provided an opportunity for the team to do things differently and make a real ...

Stakeholders assess ESG policy priorities for Parliament

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... more complicated by a potential minority government and because of the new composition of the Senate, said Judith Fox, director, policy at the Governance Institute. "We think that it's going to be very hard to get it up the list when there's so much ...

Investors seeking ESG themes, factors in fixed income portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... risk management strategies. "ESG is more about a risk management approach," said Craig Hurt, AXA Investment Managers director for Australia and New Zealand. "You either go the exclusion approach, or you go further up the spectrum and manage the risk ...

Companies aware of Sustainable Development Goals: ACCSR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... Responsibility (ACCSR)'s 8 th Annual Review of the State of CSR in Australia and New Zealand. Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility This year's review asked participants to give information on how they're ...

Podcast: Australia's Affordable Housing Solution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... organisations and governments. This episode features affordable housing experts and field practitioners: Mark Peacock, director of impact investing at Social Ventures Australia. Wendy Hayhurst, CEO of the New South Wales Federation of Housing Associations. ...

The search for better social metrics to value affordable housing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... consistent way." There needs to be metrics with more comparability and transparency across the industry, said Mark Peacock, director of impact investing at SVA. "It's challenging, of course, because it's a market that is reasonably fragmented, and lots ...