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AMP Capital hires ESG research associate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... Capital Investors has hired Shalini Samuel as ESG research associate. Samuel comes to AMP Capital form Sustainable Investments Research Institute (SIRIS), and has extensive experience in ESG research, particularly Australian and Asian companies, as well ...

End of Financial Year time for tax, ethical investment check

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... keen on that, because they're not given the information to make an informed choice." Australian Ethical discloses its investments and makes that information available to superannuation investor, and there is the potential for investors to have more access ...

NZ Super excludes nuclear base operators from investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has decided to exclude a group of nuclear base operators because they are involved in programs to extend the life of nuclear stockpiles in the United States and United Kingdom. The NZ$22bn NZ Superannuation Fund will ...

NGS Super allocates to NSW social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... consider environmental, social and governance in its investment process, but does not measure the social impact of its investments, he said. "Our priority is, first and foremost, to be a professional investor seeking to maximise retirement benefits for ...

Greens call on Future Fund to divest from coal companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
The leader of the Australian Greens party has called for the Future Fund to divest its investments in coal companies. Senator Christine Milne "Earlier this year the Future Fund ditched its tobacco investments in response to a campaign led by the Greens," ...

Fund managers assess retailers' risks in Bangladesh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Bangladesh factories. Citi contacted Wesfarmers, who own Kmart, Target, and Coles; Woolworths, who own Big W; Myer; Premier Investments, who own Just Jeans, Portmans and others; and Specialty Fashion Group, who own Katies, Millers and others, and David ...

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 ...