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VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... investments tilt towards higher quality countries, such as countries in Scandinavia, Omega's analysts told The Sustainability Report at the time. See Also: Omega: governance measurements reduce bond portfolio risk LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes ...

Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... payment arrangement as the organisation will be refurbishing the business in the initial phase, SEFA told The Sustainability Report at the time. "We distinguish between monitoring and reviewing - monitoring is the ongoing process of do the debtors pay ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... system in Traralgon that is owned by SP AusNet," Anthony Collins, managing director of NovaPower told The Sustainability Report. "It provides greater power security when there is load or peak demand on the system. The objective is to help SP AusNet defer ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Editor's Note: The Sustainability Report is pleased to present this column from Josh Dowse. Josh is principal of Dowse CSP, a sustainability/ESG advisory firm, has worked on ESG, sustainability and communication issues with McKinsey & Company and Macquarie ...

Woolworths poker machine vote fails, but push to continue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... try to bring about progressive change within our ethical mandate." Industry experts that spoke with The Sustainability Report said that they had not expected the resolution to succeed, mainly because the resolution had been presented as a constitutional ...

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... who identify carbon of a risk," Nathan Fabian, CEO of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) told The Sustainability Report during CarbonExpo in Melbourne this week. "That had been trending very high for a long time, many years, and many people ...

SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... payment arrangement as the organisation will be refurbishing the business in the initial phase, SEFA told The Sustainability Report at the time. Triodos Bank was founded in 1980 to provide a "bridging function" between the not for profit world and the ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... energy efficiency and achieve carbon abatement in the property and industry sectors. McDonald talks to The Sustainability Report on how LCAL's model encourages private sector investment in energy efficiency and carbon abatement technology, how it has ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... of the national broadband network. Sean Kidney "There's a flight to yield with quality," Kidney told The Sustainability Report. "What investors are looking for is not AAA - there is too much AAA. It's negative money these days in Europe. What people ...

The UpSide Interview: Geoff Sinclair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
The Sustainability Report is pleased to present this interview by Katerina Kimmorley with Geoff Sinclair, head of carbon sales and trading, Standard Bank, about how UK banks have made profits out of the Clean Development Mechanism, and the implications ...