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Foresight Group hires Gary Sofarelli for Sydney office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) provided an AU$100 million cornerstone investment to the Foresight Group's Australian Bioenergy Fund (ABF). The fund will make investments of AU$2 million to AU$50 million in bioenergy projects in Australia, potentially ...

Moree Solar Farm signs PPA with Origin Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... aspiration to be one of Australia's leading renewable energy companies." FRV undertook to develop MSF with support from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). FRV reached financial close in July ...

Demand exceeds supply in Australian green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... Earlier in 2015, National Australia Bank (NAB) issued a $205 million in the United States bond markets to finance an Australian wind farm, and in 2014, NAB issued the first Australian climate bond - an AU$150 million green bond, the first Australian-issued ...

Government launches new Clean Energy Innovation Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
The federal government will retain the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and has announced that the two specialist agencies will jointly manage a AU$1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund (CEIF). ...

Australian Ethical hires equities analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical has hired Mark Williams as an equities analyst. Williams comes to Australian Ethical from Morgans. He has 10 years' experience in financial markets, and prior to working at Morgan's, he worked at ABN AMRO/RBS/CIMB. "Much of Australian ...

Ayers Rock Resort finishes 1.8MW PV system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... AU$4.7 million to Epuron to construct, own and maintain the $7 million 5,770-module solar array at the resort. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is providing AU$450,000 funding support to Voyages "to analyse and promote the learning and ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... delivery of service." The social services sector comprises 3.8% of GDP (excluding volunteers) and employs 9.3% of the Australian workforce, Dr Chioatto noted, which gives further urgency to develop and implement the metrics to fully capture the value ...

Cities provide essential collaboration: C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... C40 tell cities that they're not out on a limb alone and this is what the most successful cities in the world think." Australian cities, while facing obvious climate change challenges such as the fact that much of the network power grid is fuelled by ...

Q&A: Madeleine Senior, Bert Rebelo, Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... lot of interest in from Australia. What we have done with impact investing in the US we can adapt and apply to the Australian context. We did a social impact bond with Denver, where we try to help communities, and we're also obviously trying make sure ...

Impact Investing Australia launches inaugural Australian survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... energy, according to Impact Investing Australia's inaugural impact investment survey. Rosemary Addis, chair of the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing and Impact Investing Australia Impact Investing Australia surveyed 123 investors, with more ...