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LGS hires Scott Armstrong as property portfolio manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... management. Prior to coming to LGS, he was portfolio manager of direct property for Uniting Financial Services (UFS), the $1b treasury and investment arm of the Uniting Church in Australia. In this role, he managed a AU$260 million direct property portfolio ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... modelling from the CSIRO and the Victoria University Centre for Policy Studies, using the same tools as previous analyses by Treasury and the Garnaut Review. ClimateWorks and ANU established three scenarios for near-zero carbon electricity, said Amandine ...

UCA Funds Management appoint independent directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... and finance director with more than 22 years' experience in senior roles in law firms, financial services and corporate treasury operations in Australia, the UK, Canada and the US. Since 2002, she has also held a number of directorships and is currently ...

Government announces plan to abolish ARENA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... consolidated revenue. Treasurer Joe Hockey unveiled the 2014/2015 budget on Tuesday night. As part of the budget announcement, Treasury announced it would abolish the agency and return its functions to the Department of Industry. In its place, government ...

RepuTex: DAP could achieve more reductions than CPM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... abatement, but there has been a downgrade in expectations over the last 18 months in terms of the carbon price. Instead of Treasury's carbon price which rises from $12 to $28 by 2020, we're assuming a more commercial price - around $10 on average thru ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... having formerly worked as a director at the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and has also worked in NSW Treasury, in venture capital in the US and UK, and in the UK Treasury. He steps in as the CEO role has been expanded from a part-time ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... opportunity, it varied from our other, Melbourne EUAs as they were retrofits of an existing building," said Robert Wyllie, treasury manager, Eureka Funds Management. "This is for the construction of a trigeneration plant within an existing building that ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... fund is still preforming above the benchmark." Hartnett noted that the IFC bond issue, of which LGS purchased US$6m, a treasury-style bond. Green assets earmarked for the funding are ring-fenced with rules reviewed by CICERO, the Oslo climate research ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... be seen as a luxury firms can't afford. Our story starts with recent studies on Australian national income by both the Treasury [1] and McKinsey & Company [2]. Economic measures like GDP, GNP, current accounts and national debt always are of interest. ...

Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... change. They combine that explicit environmental mission with a similar profile to standard debt instruments, covering treasury-style bonds, treasury-style retail offerings "involving a coupon linked to carbon credits or green indexes" and asset-backed ...