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Graham Dooley new president of Australian Water Association

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... South Australia branch for 12 years from 1996, and director of the national AWA for four years, Blue Sky Alternative Investments said. Dooley has also chairman, director or CEO of nearly 40 companies and organisations, including Water Australia, the ...

Budget to cut ARENA funding, bring forward money to CTIP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... compressed air, insulation and other activities, Jutsen said. "The CTIP has definitely accelerated energy efficiency investments in the companies," he said. "Some may well have gone ahead anyhow, but for a lot of the projects, the reason why they have ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... given a red rating - companies that Etinvest deems as being damaging to people or the environment - are excluded from investments. Investments are then made in companies rated yellow for doing no harm and green for positively benefiting people or the ...

Energy audit implementation yields cost savings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... systems, those sorts of areas to work on," Curnow said. "What we do as part of the process is that we quantify those investments for them. Then we also get things in terms of actual inefficiencies in process or process improvement.... Then we get to ...

Superannuation funds urged to examine impact of investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
The overall superannuation industry has not done enough to make investment decisions that take environmental, social and governance impacts into consideration, and it is not only possible but imperative to do so, two fund professionals said at the annual ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... by CEO Mark Lazberger, CFSGAM said in its 2012 responsible investment annual report. CFSGAM, known as First State Investments outside of Australia/New Zealand, published its responsible investment accomplishments of 2012 and made new commitments to strengthen ...

Australian exposed to carbon bubble through coal resources

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... companies spent an estimated AU$6 billion on developing more coal reserves, the report found. "Australian and overseas investments in Australian coal rest on a speculative bubble of climate denial, indifference or dreaming," said John Connor, CEO of ...

NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... fund demanding disclosure and transparency on details about climate risk and the extent of their fossil fuel based investments. "The aims are very simple - we know that transparency drives analysis, and analysis is likely to result in superannuation ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation gets investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... board chair. ""We are now fully staffed and operational, ready to commence making investment decisions and to contract investments to be funded from July 1, 2013." The government has directed the CEFC board to adopt a portfolio benchmark return for fund ...

GRESB hires new head of Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... management has joined GRESB. AEGON operates in more than 20 countries and has over â,¬458 million revenue generating investments, including a wide range of real estate investments in a variety of sectors. AEGON Asset Management and TKP Investments ...