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CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... week, the government announced the CEFC's investment mandate. The government has directed the CEFC board to adopt a portfolio benchmark return for fund performance based on a weighted average of the five-year Australian government bond rate, reflecting ...

NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are looking to engage with superannuation funds and their individual members as they seek to effectual environmental and social changes, with varying levels of response. For their part, superannuation funds are ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation gets investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Government has clearly articulated its broad expectations of performance and how the Corporation should build its investment portfolio to mobilise financial flows into the clean energy sector," said Jillian Broadbent, CEFC board chair. ""We are now fully ...

GRESB hires new head of Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... is rapidly increasing in Asia, and for investors it is therefore imperative to monitor and improve performance at the portfolio level," said Sander Paul van Tongeren, executive director at GRESB and senior sustainability specialist at APG Asset Management. ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Slightly more than 14% of the ASX200 market capitalisation is based on fossil fuels, and the value of fossil fuel assets is at risk in a carbon constrained world, but the risk is not evenly distributed across all resources or across a long term time ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... owns 259,000 shares, equivalent to 0.1% of TOMRA. The holding is part of Australian Ethical' s international equities portfolio, and Australian Ethical have been a "long-standing" investor in the company, said Phil Vernon, managing director of Australian ...

Local Government Super adopts private equity ESG framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... for their ESG objectives. The nearly AU$7bn LGS has an asset allocation range for private equity as 5-15% of its total portfolio. According to its 2011-2012 annual report, private equity represented 10.7% of the total portfolio as of 30 June 2012. LGS ...

SIRIS placed into administration, company confirms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... on their proprietary data software platform, PrSIM (Profiling Sustainable Investment Metrics). The company provides portfolio construction and compliance, corporate governance and proxy voting and advisory services. "The intent is that the internal creditors ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate 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 ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... relationships with some of the smaller banks, and we are developing that. We have to further develop the Indigenous loan portfolio, and that means a fair bit of effort. We are also about evangelising what we're doing and showing people what can be done." ...