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Barclays, MSCI to launch Green Bond Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Barclays and MSCI have agreed to launch a Green Bond Index, a new addition to their environmental, social and governance (ESG) fixed income benchmark index series. The Green Bond Index will reflect those bonds funding projects with direct environmental ...

ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Companies paid a premium of more than AU$170 million for underwriting of rights issues between 2010 and 2012, according to research conducted by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). ACSI conducted benchmark modelling of what underwriting ...

Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) into investment management is accelerating in Australia and around the world, guided by demand from asset owners and increasing flexibility in fund design that can tailor strategies that ...

ARENA invests in Sunverge Energy via venture capital fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund has made an AU$7.6 million investment in Sunverge Energy, a company that is developing a simple, cost-effective solar energy storage solution. Half of the investment - AU$3.8 million - has come from the Australian ...

AMP Capital assesses progress, risks in Bangladesh factories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Although work is underway in Bangladesh to improve the fire and building safety of factories in an attempt to prevent further tragedies such as 2012's Rana Plaza factory collapse, Australian retailers that source apparel from Bangladeshi suppliers are ...

Mercer hires Alexis Cheang to Responsible Investment team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Mercer has hired Alexis Cheang as a senior responsible investment consultant within Mercer's Responsible Investment team. Cheang is based in Sydney and will work with Mercer's investment clients "in helping them implement Mercer's recently launched ...

CFI a source of economic opportunity for Indigenous groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) has offered opportunities for income generation for carbon abatement and sequestration activities for a number of entities, including Indigenous groups. One of the earliest methodologies approved under the CFI certified ...

Farmland attractive to super funds, but liquidity a concern

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Long-term investors such as superannuation funds are "potentially great partners" to invest in farmland, but illiquidity concerns are one barrier to investment, according to Gordon Noble, senior portfolio analyst and regional strategist at Inflection ...

Foresters Community Finance, InterFinancial to partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Foresters Community Finance has sold shares in its funds management subsidiary to mid-market corporate advisory firm InterFinancial Corporate Finance as part of a strategic partnership between the two companies. InterFinancial offers independent advisory ...

Natural Carbon announces Cape York CFI project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Natural Carbon, Pormpuraaw Aboriginal Shire Council and Olkola Aboriginal Corporation will undertake savannah burning on 13,000 square kilometres in Cape York, a Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI)-compliant project. The implementation of the savannah burning ...