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Louise Davidson appointed ACSI CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... will be a great asset to us and will continue Gordon's impressive contribution to the responsible investment and sustainability debate in Australia." Cbus Super is an AU$30 billion industry superannuation fund. Davidson has worked in her current role ...

New Forests launches responsible investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... first-ever responsible investment policy and reported total assets under management of AU$2.5 billion in its 2014 sustainability report. New Forests, a private sustainable real assets investment manager, also implemented sustainability reporting using ...

bankmecu to participate in GABV bank investment fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... managing director The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), of which bankmecu is a member, has launched the Sustainability | Finance | Real Economies fund (SFRE, pronounced Sapphire). Investors have already committed over US$40million to SFRE ...

Melbourne, Sydney join Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... alliance will support us to work through the challenges involved in reaching our ambitious target. I commend the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, C40 and the Innovation Network for Communities for establishing this initiative." The alliance also ...

RobecoSAM launches 2015 assessment for DJSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
RobecoSAM has launched the 2015 corporate sustainability assessment, its annual evaluation that is the basis for the construction of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI). RobecoSAM has invited more than 3,400 of the largest companies, based on ...

Climate Bonds Initiative looks to China's green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... green bond the most appropriate financing structure," said Jenny Merkley, associate director climate change and sustainability group at KPMG in Australia. "They need to have a need to be raising debt in this way. Does that fit with their debt profile ...

Inflection Point CM to launch Carbon Zero fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... tilt towards companies that positively impacting on reducing carbon emissions, Kiernan said. Kiernan spoke to The Sustainability Report this week while in Australia. The fund will be open to Australian institutional investors, but Inflection Point "haven't ...

Mirvac integrates sustainability in "place-making" thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
Property developer and manager Mirvac is applying its sustainability strategy to their role in "place making" when building retail, residential and commercial developments. Paul Edwards, group general manager sustainability, Mirvac In January 2014 ...

Super funds show 5.7% jump in percentage of women directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... analysed public sector and industry funds with more than AU$1 billion in FUM and presented the research to The Sustainability Report. Of the 10 public sector funds with more than AU$1 billion in AUM, representing AU$185.9 billion in assets, 39% of the ...

Future Home Loans to broker fossil fuel free loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... expansion of the fossil fuel sector. Simon Sheikh, managing director, Future Home Loans As previously reported in The Sustainability Report, Future Home Loans is a national initiative. It is founded as a sister company to Future Super, which was founded ...