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Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... subject of climate change. Other asset classes that are subject to climate related monitoring and assessment include real estate, infrastructure and fixed income. Asset manager are also allocating to themed investment strategies such as clean energy ...

IIGCC urges greater energy efficiency for EU property sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... these problems are currently available, noted Tatiana Bosteels, head of responsible property investment at Hermes Real Estate. ""The technology to significantly reduce the total energy consumption of buildings exist, however current policy and voluntary ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... assessment from their point of view and that's been a big challenge, given current conservatism in capital and commercial real estate markets." Bocskay said that given a background of tighter lending conditions, EUAs can be effective as a way of increasing ...

Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... GRI said that there has been a "noticeable" rise in GRI reports from chemicals, with a 32% increase over 2010 and real estate, with a 16% increase over 2010. GRI launched its database in November 2011 and data is collected via reports registered directly ...

QIC selects Molpus Woodlands Group for timber mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... having those real asset characteristics and having bond-like characteristics. It is different from infrastructure and real estate. For instance, if there's a down market, people aren't demanding property rentals. But with timber, what they say is, they ...

GRESB joins forces with GRI to push sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) will partner with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a move designed to advance the standardisation of reporting on environmental, social and economic performance in the global real estate ...

GPT Group reports 2011 reductions in waste, energy and water

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... substantial uplift in the value of the US Seniors Housing portfolio." GPT is a diversified property group, which owns real estate in the retail, office and industrial/business park sectors, and has a funds management arm as well. GPT noted that during ...

Mercer ratings demonstrate challenge of integrating ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... 5,175 strategies evaluated for ESG factors, 57% are in listed equities, 20% fixed income and the remaining 23% across real estate, private equity, hedge funds and others. Private equity has the highest proportion of highly rated ESG strategies, while ...

Mercer gives top rating to 9% of ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... 5,175 strategies evaluated for ESG factors, 57% are in listed equities, 20% fixed income and the remaining 23% across real estate, private equity, hedge funds and others. Private equity has the highest proportion of highly rated ESG strategies, while ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... survey also found that one third of participants have begun to or plan to allocate more to "climate sensitive assets" - real estate, infrastructure, private equity, sustainable equities, efficiency/renewables and commodities, and more than half of participants ...