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Energy Choice joins Energy Smart Finance Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... vendors and finance in an integrated fashion, and joining the program makes it easier for businesses to access Energy Choice's high quality solar panels and inverters, and EasySaver T5 replacement tubes for fluorescent lighting upgrades, said Lee Lake ...

Net Balance: financial, shared value performance related

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
There is a correlation between Australian companies with strong financial performance and strong creating shared value (CSV) performance, but it appears that financial performance leads to greater CSV, rather than vice versa, according to research from ...

Government allocates additional funds for microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... appropriate options for affordable access to credit, alongside credit reform, is an important strategy for addressing short term, high cost payday loans," Collins said in a statement. "This initiative fills a gap for vulnerable Australians who are able ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... the lowest current ratings. The second strategy was a "simple ESG tilt", in which no stocks were excluded, but stocks with high current ESG ratings were overweighted and those with low current ratings were underweighted and maintaining other exposures ...

AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Indonesia. For developed markets, Japan was the largest underweight largely due to governance issues, while countries with high quality long-term ratings such as the United Kingdom and the United States were slightly underweight largely as a result of ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Investments, Ellomay Capital, Fjarde AP-fonden, Ford Motor Company, Parnassus Investments, Praxis Intermediate Income Fund, SSGA High Quality Green Bond Fund, TIAA-CREF, and the Washington State Investment Board. IFC is a member of the World Bank Group ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
It is the goal of sustainability practitioners to establish corporate social responsibility (CSR) to provide the company with processes and responsibilities to respond resiliently to both everyday interactions and to the extraordinary situations that ...

ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... understanding and support for our CSR/sustainability approach" was the highest priority, with 65% of respondents saying that was a high or very high priority. The second highest priority at 59% was managing regulatory impacts and measuring impacts and ...

IIRC, IASB agree to more cooperation on reporting standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... the IFRS Foundation, an independent, private sector, not-for-profit organisation. IASB's role is to develop a single set of high quality global accounting standards that provide high quality transparent and comparable information in general purpose financial ...

AMP Capital invests in North American wind farm portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Capistrano Wind Partners will provide our investors with additional geographical diversification and exposure to a portfolio of high-quality wind projects." AMP Capital is investing in a consortium of three other infrastructure investors, and EME manages ...