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Green Bond issuance up 50% on first half of 2016: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... Treasury Corporation of Victoria (TCV) has issued an AU$300 million green bond, also certified by the CBI, and Monash University issued an AU$218 million green bond, also certified by CBI. Last week, Australian Catholic University issued a 200 million ...

CEFC lends $32m for construction of green student accommodation project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... ongoing energy costs." The Waymouth Street project is in Adelaide's CBD, within walking distance of campuses for both the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide. Adelaide has more than 65,000 full time higher education students ...

Responsible Investment assets top $622 billion: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... highlighting NAB's Gender Equality Bond, the issuance of certified green bonds, and the July issuance of Australian Catholic University's Sustainability Bond as examples. "That will ramp up quite quickly because I think a lot of the institutional market ...

Mercer study reveals diversity gap in investment management industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... of the asset owners and Mercer will focus on developing a program to implement these strategies and applying them to university students, early career professionals and other professionals with the aim of addressing these barriers and challenges, Beattie ...

Australian Catholic University issues $200m Sustainability Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
Australian Catholic University (ACU) has issued a $200 million Sustainability Bond to be used in green building construction and education program development. Scott Jenkins, chief financial officer, Australian Catholic University ACU is the first Australian ...

Local Government Super appoints Katherine O'Regan as board chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... O'Regan is also a Director of the public policy think tank The Sydney Institute, and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (University of Canberra), Masters of Business Administration (Australian Graduate School of Management) and a Masters of US Studies ...

VicSuper joins Financial Inclusion Action Plan program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... Australia, BaptistCare, Commonwealth Bank, EnergyAustralia, HESTA, NAB, the Queensland state government, Suncorp, Swinburne University, and Westpac. Since then, the trailblazer group has grown to 30. "We've been working on financial literacy, inclusion ...

Artisan raises $26 million for the Clean Energy Seed Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... accelerators such as EnergyLab. The fund is also designed to invest in clean energy startups such as accelerators, incubators, university programs and angel groups. The fund will invest at seed, angel and later stage follow-on rounds in 30-50 startups ...

Removing complicity in modern slavery?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
Ed note: The Sustainability Report is pleased to present this article from Katherine Christ of the University of South Australia and Roger Burritt of the Australian National University Dr Katherine Christ and Professor Roger Burritt Revealing the world ...

Asset owners identify economic inequality as rising investment risk at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... climate change is a key 'E' issue. Last year the PRI began to turn its mind to inequality. We've teamed up with Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government to build the investment case, but also some tools, indicators, metrics that investors need ...