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Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... climate solutions. SSgA's High Quality Green Bond Strategy seeks to approximate the duration of its benchmark, the Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Index, through investments principally in green bonds issued by MDBs and other debt instruments. SSgA notes ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... all those risks metrics, we've worked out a payback scenario of 4.7 years, and that equates to a 21% return on the net capital outlay." LGS manages nearly AU$6bn in assets with 100,000 members, including 60,000 employees working for local government ...

Ownership Matters hires Marty Chung

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Martin Lawrence and Simon Connal as part of the OM team that is focused on the governance of Australian companies and capital markets. Chung previously worked as an analyst at ISS / RiskMetrics covering both Australian and Korean markets from the Melbourne ...

Australia to pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... in integrating social responsibility into their activities, particularly in terms of labour, financial and reputational capital, especially if they do so from the early stages of a project."

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... income managers people would withdraw the particular support because of what a company was undertaking," said Woods of AMP Capital. "Our fund is a multimanager fund. AMP Capital provides the review of the holdings from an ESG perspective, and the fund ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability researchers say that some issues at play this year will include executive remuneration and the processes around capital raisings, plus resolutions on environmental and social issues. This is the first AGM season in which shareholders the ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... financing mechanism we find around the world, such as the UK Green Investment Bank," Fabian said. "Based on the scale of capital allocation needed over the next 20 years to low carbon assets, co-investment vehicles are likely to feature prominently in ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreement for Melbourne property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... programme," said Andrew Balzan, NAB's managing director and head of property finance." "We know that access to affordable capital is a major barrier in retrofitting commercial buildings. This signing marks an important milestone, removing this barrier ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... the bodies emphasises the need for investment-grade policies which will facilitate institutional investors in allocating capital towards climate change solutions, including appropriate government incentives to compensate for heightened risk and sufficient ...

Community finance draws eye of institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... institutions such as Foresters become better at presenting themselves. "I would expect over time that we would see the supply of capital grow as we're more sophisticated in presenting the demand," she said. "The fact that Christian Super invested with ...