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Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are looking to apply environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis to fixed income portfolios. Investment professionals say the trend towards using ESG factors as part of the fixed income investment process is a work in ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... play this year will include executive remuneration and the processes around capital raisings, plus resolutions on environmental and social issues. This is the first AGM season in which shareholders the right to remove directors if a company's remuneration ...

AWE reports lower GHG emissions, underlying loss for 2011FY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... will continue this practice, particularly in relation to its shale gas and tight gas activities. Furthermore, the environmental management plan for AWE's upcoming stimulation activities in the Perth Basin has been included on the company's website."

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Investors Group on Climate Change (IGCC)'s new Low-Carbon Finance Working Group will play a stakeholder role with "green" financing institutions both domestically and overseas, consulting with the institutions being established by governments to ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreement for Melbourne property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The City of Melbourne has signed its first-ever Environmental Upgrade Agreement (EUA) to fund a AU$400,000 retrofit of a building that will result in a reduction of approximately 170 tonnes of carbon emissions per year. The EUA was signed between the ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Three leading investor groups on climate change, including the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC), have called for policy action to stimulate private sector investment into climate change solutions that can create jobs and ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Gillard government has created an expert review panel to advise on the design of the AU$10bn Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), which is expected to commence operations from 2013-2014. Jillian Broadbent, a board member of the Reserve Bank ...

Microfinance a source of financial and social return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... services to that pool of borrowers living in emerging markets, with an overarching goal of achieving broader social and environmental impacts. "The idea of it is to create a positive impact beyond the financial return," Birgden said. "That means to improve ...

ASX500 companies increase number of women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... There were 39 directors with masters degrees in business administration, law, arts, economics, project management, environmental science and social admiration. Seven women hold a doctorate. Of the 235 women, at least 13 have received Australian honours ...

Regulatory barriers slowing cogeneration technology usage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... Cogeneration - combined heat and power - and trigeneration - combined cooling, heat and power - offer "significant" environmental and economic benefits to the Australian building industry. But "a complex and burdensome connection process and regulatory ...