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PRI to target water risk in agricultural supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has opened a new initiative and will focus on engaging with 54 companies around the world that have water risk exposure in their agricultural supply chain. Fiona Reynolds, UN PRI managing director The agriculture ...

CEFC, CFSGAM to establish clean energy infrastructure fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... funded with AU$10bn and announced as part of the Clean Energy Future package to encourage private investment, help overcome capital market barriers to commercialising clean energy technologies, and invests in firms utilising these technologies as well ...

GRI names Michael Meehan new chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... organizations are managed." Meehan will lead GRI at a time when the organisation is developing new methodologies on natural capital and around integrated reporting, and "will drive GRI's collaboration with global reporting frameworks," GRI said. "I look ...

Financial System Inquiry addresses impact investment market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... acknowledged calls for government to take a more active role in the expansion of the impact investment market by providing risk capital to attract initial investments and developing a dedicated social investment bank. Social Ventures Australia (SVA) ...

Creating shared value a strategic opportunity for banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... is another great area. We have financial mechanisms to help not for profits and social enterprises unlock new access to capital." Benson noted that in addition to creating products aimed at funding impact investments, the bank is also supporting ongoing ...

CDP: World cities report climate change business impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... recognise that climate change is a threat to businesses located within their municipalities, with impacts on property, capital, infrastructure and social impacts to communities, according to research from CDP. CDP has published Protecting Our Capita ...

Barclays, MSCI to launch Green Bond Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... bonds will be issued in 2014, with around US$100 billion will be issued in 2015, said Jim Glascott, global head of debt capital markets at Barclays. "The creation of a Green Bond Index will be an extremely useful tool for issuers and institutional investors ...

Community 21 launches share offer to raise up to AU$4m

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... "When we started 12 years ago, we went to the non-profit sector and said, we need to look at a way to better harness the capital running to the non-profit sector and participate in a greater way in managing the funds that the sector had," said Peter ...

ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... a number of years, that companies are price takers in this market rather than price makers. Any one company is raising capital fairly sporadically, whereas the market is conducting underwriting services more broadly." ACSI examined capital rights issues ...

Superannuation fund investments will shape future economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... the Australian economy, according to Gordon Noble, senior portfolio analyst and regional strategist at Inflection Point Capital Management. Gordon Noble, senior portfolio analyst, Inflection Point Capital Management Noble recently spoke with The Sustainability ...