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CEFC finances $20m in business energy improvements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and Commonwealth Bank have financed AU$20 million in energy productivity projects for business via the Energy Efficient Loan program. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO The Energy Efficient ...

Good Super appoints Andrew MacLeod as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... food security, gender equality, Indigenous health, efficient mass transit, social justice and human rights, corruption energy, clean drinking water and youth unemployment, among other issues. "The sole purpose test says that we are supposed to look after ...

Northern Trust to open asset management in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... AU$200 billion in assets and is the custodian for asset owners including the Future Fund, CSC, QIC, IAG, ACT Treasury and Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme (EISS). "Whilst asset servicing has been the lead business for us in Australia, we're starting ...

Green bond issuance hits US$36.6 billion for 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... was GDF Suez's $3.4bn green bond (split into a EUR 1.2bn and EUR 1.3bn tranches) with proceeds going towards renewable energy and energy efficiency projects," the Climate Bonds Initiative said. "As the corporate green bond market matured, we also saw ...

ACCR to continue engaging over banks' carbon disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... not necessary, Le Couteur said. "CBA has undertaken to disclose the carbon emissions initially from their lending to the energy sector and then all their lending," ACCR said in a summation of the 2014 commitments. "NAB has disclosed how much of its lending ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance, Suncorp pilot microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... includes 246 community organisations across 650 locations in Australia to offer safe, fair, and affordable loans, savings, energy inclusion and other programs and has reached over 125,000 people. While Good Shepherd Microfinance has three Good Money ...

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... makes a political impact as well, as the trustees of the Australian National University or the staff or board of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) can attest to. It ultimately means that superannuation funds use tools to shape and participate ...

Christian Super selects three impact investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... development, the IFC Catalyst Fund, a private equity fund run by the International Finance Corporation that invests in renewable energy projects in emerging markets, and the G lobal Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF), a fund-of-funds ...

Canada adopts mining payment regime, Australia next?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Canada, which means they will have to comply with the new law. Publish What You Pay Australia points to uranium miner Paladin Energy Limited and OceanaGold Corporation as examples. Paladin Energy is a supporting company of the Extractive Industries Transparency ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... strategies are growing at the fastest rate since 2011 "due to the rising importance of ESG issues such as climate change, energy and water security in the region," according to ASrIA. "Enabling change in Asia's sustainable investment market also requires ...