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Investors question payday lenders at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... concerns over companies' standards in lending policies to financially vulnerable Australians. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management UCA Funds Management and seven other organisations, including other investors, engagement specialists, financial counsellors ...

Altius Sustainable Bond Fund certified by RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Association Australasia (RIAA) as a responsible investment fund. Gavin Goodhand, senior portfolio manager, Altius Asset Management The Altius Sustainable Bond Fund was launched in December 2014 and is a diversified Australian fixed interest fund "focused ...

ARENA, CEFC back Barcaldine Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Barcaldine area, which has an excellent solar resource and experiences voltage and frequency control issues as well as load management challenges." Barcaldine Solar Farm will help alleviate peak demand pressures and provide voltage control, which should ...

ACSI annual report outlines 2015-2018 strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... superannuation funds and six major international pension funds, with a combined total of AU$1.5 trillion in assets under management. ACSI reported engaging with 125 companies this year, a 20% increase over the previous year, as well as publishing five ...

Assessing net benefits of Indigenous CFI projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... price provided sustainable revenue for costly abatement activities. Land sector projects - reforestation, savanna fire management, agricultural emissions - have been successful under the ERF so far, however there is a need to ensure that Australia continues ...

CEFC launches $250m Local Government Finance Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... finance projects principally in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, according to Paul Greenop, head of portfolio management at the CEFC. "In just five months, NAB customers have invested more than $50 million in 250 transactions across a wide range ...

Ross Hill Wine Group certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... making it the first Australian winery to do so. Iain Smale, Pangolin Associates Pangolin Associates, energy and carbon management specialists, advised Ross Hill Wine Group on the process to attain NCOS certification. "NCOS certified carbon neutrality ...

Governance Institute appoint Simon Pordage president

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... on-strategy achievement. "That will involve encouraging all organisations to 'join the dots' on their culture, risk management, strategy-setting and communication frameworks and to cascade them effectively, so that everyone in the organisation - not ...

Future Super goes carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... offset credits with South Pole Group. "There's a business case for being fossil fuel free, and a case about risk and the management of stranded asset risk," said Simon Sheikh, managing director of Future Super. Future Super is funding the purchase of ...

CEFC commits $100m to Australian Bioenergy Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... in the UK, with international offices in San Francisco and Rome, and has more than AU$3.25 billion in assets under management. Foresight is currently establishing a presence in Austraila. Foresight has more than $3.25 billion of assets under management ...