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Bendigo Wealth to provide support to Cool Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Bendigo Wealth has announced a partnership with Cool Australia. The partnership will see Bendigo Wealth, the wealth management division of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, provide financial support for Cool Australia, a not-for-profit that educates Australian ...

AfricaSIF to survey ESG integration into African investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... pan-African network promoting investment in sustainable development, has launched a research project to gauge how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are integrated into investment processes. The AfricaSIF.org Marketplace Trends 2012 Report ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds are proving a popular option with investors, with demand exceeding supply in a recent regional French environmental bond. Sean Kidney, executive chair of the Climate Bonds Initiative says that the investor interest in green bonds should ...

Foresters finances Eating Disorders Victoria service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Foresters Community Finance has financed an expanded counseling service for Eating Disorders Victoria (EDV) through its Social Enterprise Solutions program. The loan will provide funds for EDV to provide community-based early intervention and ongoing ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... government and civil society institutions are beginning to take natural capital into consideration as an economic ecological and social asset. Natural capital is described as the planet's natural assets - soil, air, water, flora and fauna - and the ecosystem ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... greenhouse gas intensity in its office and retail properties, an 84% employee engagement score and a figure of AU$2.9m social return on investment for a typical Stockland retirement village, against a backdrop of a 7% fall in underlying profit for the ...

FTSE adds three Australian companies to FTSE4Good indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... ago our focus has always been the continual evolution of standards and encouraging improvements in company environmental, social and governance practices" Mark Makepeace, FTSE's chief executive said in a media statement. "At this review we continue this ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... consultants Towers Watson believes that the world economies are in a period of transformation across a range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, and institutional investors need a similar level of transformation to their investment ...

Omega Global Investors hires investment research analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... its nearly AU$170m government bond allocation to a strategy managed by Omega that explicitly incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis into the selection process, including a specific allocation of up to 15% invested in "green" ...

UNPRI signatories name corporate ESG engagement issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... platform to facilitate increased engagement with companies on their disclosure, management and performance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. "The PRI Clearinghouse supports some of the world's leading asset owners and investment managers ...