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Retail supply chain policies pose sustainability challenges

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... efficiency gains must not come at the expense of the sustainability of the supply chain, according to a report by AMP Capital. Australian retailers have been hit by a number of prevailing trends, including weak consumption, increased competition from ...

Valuing environmental services as source of risk and return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... return, according to Cornis van der Lugt, an environmental consultant. Cornis van der Lugt Although the concept of natural capital dates back to the 1970s and gained prevalence in the 1990s, the realisation of the threat of climate change has pushed ...

Industry leaders establish Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... organisation that seeks to restore trust and encourage ethical behaviour in the financial services industry. Stephen Dunne, AMP Capital The BFO is an initiative of the Banking and Finance Ethics Panel, a working group led industry representatives including ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... CEFC after a 22-year career at Macquarie Bank, where he served as head of the investment banking division of Macquarie Capital and became the executive chair in 2010. He is currently the chair of SAS Trustee Corporation NSW and a non-executive director ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund invests in Swanston St retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... finance for retrofits, Sustainable Melbourne Fund said. "[O]wners corporations have found it almost impossible to access capital for environmental upgrades," said Sustainable Melbourne Fund Chief Executive Scott Bocskay. "The availability of funding ...

Environmental, economic risks also present opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... get climate change reaching right across the chart to the R&D risk, for example, and infrastructure fragility and the capital issues," Roux said. "You see R&D stretching through to some of the other technological risks, and so there's a pathway. R &D ...

Climate change top perceived likely risk to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... higher education, rather than in business, and that university-industry collaboration is important, as is access to venture capital. The KPMG report notes that since 2007-2008, investment in venture capital has fallen by 72% and new venture capital investments ...

IIGCC urges greater energy efficiency for EU property sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... the total energy consumption of buildings exist, however current policy and voluntary measures have failed to scale up capital investment in low carbon technologies in the real estate sector," Bosteels said in a statement accompanying the IIGCC's report ...

Foresters launches Social Investment Australia lending fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... investment committee and we will identify their eligibility for a loan," Wheeler said. "The fund will then supply the capital for that specific loan." SIA is an Australian Financial Services license holder and is the fund management arm of Foresters ...

Most Asia Pacific private equity investors monitor ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... governance (ESG) policies, in contrast to 70% of European investors and 27% of North American investors, according to Coller Capital, a private equity fund that invest in the secondary market. Jon Freeman "Speaking anecdotally, ESG is something investors ...