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Low Carbon Australia forms alliance with Wiley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... facilitate building the CEFC's investment pipeline. LCAL is an independent company established in 2010 by the Australian government and manages an AU$84.6m investment fund which provides finance to improve energy efficiency and achieve carbon abatement ...

Monash University selected as sustainable development hub

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... SDSN program is supported by the Harold Mitchell Foundation, the National Australia Bank and the Australian federal government. University of Siena in Italy has also been selected as a regional SDSN centre and will focus on the Mediterranean region. ...

KPMG: fraud costs Australian/NZ businesses $373 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... 2012, a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that while the Australian government is making foreign bribery offences a priority, enforcement of its foreign bribery laws has been "extremely low". The OECD called ...

Local Government Super sells upgraded property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) has sold one of the properties in its portfolio for AU$42m. LGS sold SKM House in St Leonards to Altis Property Partners Group. The property had been retrofitted to 6-star NABERS rating and received a $439,000 grant from ...

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... of a global carbon trading market. "The clear message that we took away from Mark [Dreyfus]'s comments is that the government does see the world moving to an international carbon market and that clearly linking is going to be a key aspect of that for ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Australian sustainable investing. However, negative screening has grown by 30% since 2010, mainly due to the fact that Local Government Super expanded its sustainable investing overlay to large international equities. LGS now excludes investments in ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... financial markets have a low sensitivity to resource limitations, prices are based on short-term availability, and government regulation focuses on managing flows of resources rather than stock; price driven change, in which markets have a long-term ...

Net Balance launches research and development institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Net Balance has launched a dedicated research and development initiative, the Tomorrow's Agenda Research Institute, and appointed Les Hems as inaugural director of research and development. Tomorrow's Agenda Research Institute will see Net Balance take ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... countries and is then overlaid with BlackRock's Sovereign Risk Index, a non-investable index that measures relative government creditworthiness in a systemic manner. In addition to placing limits on highly indebted developed countries, the benchmark ...

Net Balance certified as a B Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... will see both entities increase the range of their sustainability supply chain consulting services across private and government organisations in Australia. The merger was recently finalised and follows on from a history of successful partnerships, the ...