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INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... decide that it meets the cost/benefit test," Davis told The Sustainability Report. "This means that people in corporate treasury, the CFO, the sustainability folks have to sit down and identify if they have enough projects that meet the quality standards ...

NSW develops first social impact investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... established an Office of Social Impact Investment, a joint initiative of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet and the NSW Treasury. The policy was hailed by Impact Investing Australia, who said that the announcement positions NSW to be a "global ...

Northern Trust to open asset management in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... more than AU$200 billion in assets and is the custodian for asset owners including the Future Fund, CSC, QIC, IAG, ACT Treasury and Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme (EISS). "Whilst asset servicing has been the lead business for us in Australia ...

LGS hires Scott Armstrong as property portfolio manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... management. Prior to coming to LGS, he was portfolio manager of direct property for Uniting Financial Services (UFS), the $1b treasury and investment arm of the Uniting Church in Australia. In this role, he managed a AU$260 million direct property portfolio ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... modelling from the CSIRO and the Victoria University Centre for Policy Studies, using the same tools as previous analyses by Treasury and the Garnaut Review. ClimateWorks and ANU established three scenarios for near-zero carbon electricity, said Amandine ...

UCA Funds Management appoint independent directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... and finance director with more than 22 years' experience in senior roles in law firms, financial services and corporate treasury operations in Australia, the UK, Canada and the US. Since 2002, she has also held a number of directorships and is currently ...

Government announces plan to abolish ARENA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... consolidated revenue. Treasurer Joe Hockey unveiled the 2014/2015 budget on Tuesday night. As part of the budget announcement, Treasury announced it would abolish the agency and return its functions to the Department of Industry. In its place, government ...

RepuTex: DAP could achieve more reductions than CPM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... abatement, but there has been a downgrade in expectations over the last 18 months in terms of the carbon price. Instead of Treasury's carbon price which rises from $12 to $28 by 2020, we're assuming a more commercial price - around $10 on average thru ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... having formerly worked as a director at the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and has also worked in NSW Treasury, in venture capital in the US and UK, and in the UK Treasury. He steps in as the CEO role has been expanded from a part-time ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... opportunity, it varied from our other, Melbourne EUAs as they were retrofits of an existing building," said Robert Wyllie, treasury manager, Eureka Funds Management. "This is for the construction of a trigeneration plant within an existing building that ...