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Local Government Super adopts private equity ESG framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... framework, said Bill Hartnett, head of sustainability at LGS. "It's a common sense approach to looking at private equity investments with particular focus on two areas - disclosure during fundraising and then secondly in the reporting once you have the ...

SIRIS placed into administration, company confirms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... to a whole range of organisations that we've been able to identify." In a filing with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, SIRIS noted the company had approximately ten creditors owed a total of AU$629,592. An external creditor "lost ...

Companies advised to manage carbon price future uncertainty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... market's future - the unwinding of commercial arrangements around pass-through of carbon price costs, and long-term investments that hinge on the ongoing price of carbon and other measures in the government's Clean Energy Future legislation. The Liberal-National ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Change (IGCC) have released three reports analysing the impacts of climate change, energy cost and carbon risk on investments in the mining and minerals, property and construction, and oil and gas sectors. The likelihood of more than two degrees of global ...

Government to maintain existing Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... large-scale technologies such as wind farms and hydro. Today's decision to leave the policy settings in place honours these investments while unlocking over $18 billion of investment to come." Separately, KPMG this week released a report analysing Chinese ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... they're more income-focused. The reason they're income-focused is that a lot of not for profits build up a corpus of investments, a bit like a charitable foundation and that income is then used in their mission. Our investment style for managing cash ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... required to ensure that all risks are "adequately and prudently considered". Climate change poses significant risks to investments, and therefore, Baker & McKenzie concludes, climate change should be considered and managed as part of their legal obligations. ...

Philanthropy Australia rolling out impact investing program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... topics including how to approach an impact investment program, how to compare providers and vehicles and monitor their investments. Maxwell noted that there have been a number of developments in the impact investment space over the past five to 10 years ...

Dalton Nicol Reid: using ESG to find sustainable earnings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... both overweights towards ESG outperformance and negative screens to eliminate undesired exposures. "In all of our investments, we seek to purchase quality companies," said Jamie Nicol, CIO of Dalton Nicol Reid. "We like to think about things like the ...

Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. At that time, the board asked the governance committee to review its investments in tobacco. The governance committee was also given the task of considering the costs and implications of negative screens ...