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AXA IM brings ESG equities analytic framework to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) will bring a new environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework to Australia, while launching new research demonstrating how integrating ESG into investment processes can augment decision making. Matt Christensen ...

Local Government Super wins property sustainability award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) has been given an award by the Australian Property Institute (API) for the sustainability features of one of its Sydney properties. LGS office property, 120 Sussex St Sydney API gave LGS the Environmental Award for the Carnegie ...

Omega: governance measurements reduce bond portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Analysing a country's willingness to repay bond debt as a governance measure is a useful metric for improving a bond portfolio's risk profile, according to research from fixed income manager Omega Global Investors. Mathew McCrum, director, investments ...

SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA), an AU$20m fund lending to social enterprises, is working to build a sustainable loan portfolio while also working to contribute to the development of the social financing sector in Australia, fund officials ...

New Forests issues second sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Forestry and environmental markets fund manager New Forests reported a successful capital raising of a fund focusing on plantation assets in the Asia Pacific Region and progress on UN PRI commitments in its second sustainability report. New Forests ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
High conviction ethical superannuation fund Cruelty Free Super has passed the two year mark, amassing more than 300 members and AU$5m in assets under management. The fund is aiming for AU$10m in assets under management and plans to contribute to the ...

Wesfarmers engagement leads to phosphate sourcing change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Wesfarmers has stopped sourcing phosphate rock from Western Sahara, after more than three years of engagement with Christian Super and other stakeholders, the superannuation fund has reported. Since 2009, Christian Super and other parties have spoken ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Business, government and wider society must account for and manage the value and use of natural capital to maintain a sustainable global economy. Valuing natural capital as part of an economy is a challenge because standard investment and economic measures ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Diversified property group Stockland reported continued reductions in greenhouse gas intensity in its office and retail properties, an 84% employee engagement score and a figure of AU$2.9m social return on investment for a typical Stockland retirement ...

Sustainable investing needed as global economy transforms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Investment consultants Towers Watson believes that the world economies are in a period of transformation across a range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, and institutional investors need a similar level of transformation to their ...