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SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... the community operated group, Myrtle Park Retirement Homes Inc., in Yolla, Tasmania, said David Rickards, SEFA managing director. Each unit costs approximately AU$120,000 to build and install on the site, Rickards said. "It's an affordable housing retirement ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Ethinvest has outperformed mainstream accumulation indices by wide margins, Ethinvest said. Trevor Thomas, Ethinvest managing director The Ethinvest ASX50 Screened Index Model has returned 39.76% for the 12 months to the end of March 2013, ahead of the ...

Energy audit implementation yields cost savings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... part of the South Australia government's Business Sustainability Alliance program (BSA). Matthew Curnow, joint managing director of Pangolin Associates The cost of energy has become a greater concern for companies both from the perspective of environmental ...

Superannuation funds urged to examine impact of investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... professionals said at the annual Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) conference. Ricard Brandweiner, director investment services, First State Super (L) and Jon Glass (R) at ACSI's annual conference (photo courtesy of ACSI) Moving beyond ...

Geodynamics announces successful test of geothermal energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... milestone for Geodynamics, geothermal power in Australia and EGS technology globally," said Geoff Ward, Geodynamics' managing director and CEO. "The commencement of the demonstration trial is the culmination of many years of hard work and the application ...

Australian exposed to carbon bubble through coal resources

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... and shareholder funds will be wasted in assets linked to unburnable carbon," said James Leaton, Carbon Tracker research director. "The fundamentals of demand and price show that investors around the world could get caught in a carbon bubble; analysts ...

Australian Ethical Investment board director resigns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical Investment board director Justine Hickey has resigned, a decision she foreshadowed at the November 2012 AGM. Hickey was re-elected as director at the November 2012 AGM, but she advised shareholders at the time that she would not serve ...

NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... acting to rebalance their portfolios in allocating more to low-carbon investments," said Julian Poulter, AODP executive director. "The objective is certainly to increase low carbon investments and by implication, divest to a degree from fossil fuels ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Most large Australian companies are struggling to find strategic responses to climate change adaptation challenges, "apparently paralysed by short-term profit first thinking, uncertain political risks and a corporate culture unused to volatility and ...

GRESB hires new head of Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Netherlands, Hong Kong and in Singapore. Langbroek held a number of roles with Jones Lang LaSalle - he was associate director in the strategic consultancy department and was head of research at Jones Lang LaSalle in the Netherlands, focused on identifying ...