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NZ Super adopts new climate change investment risk strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
The NZ$30 billion New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super) has adopted a climate change investment risk strategy that they will apply across their entire portfolio. Anne-Maree O'Connor, head of responsible investment, NZ Super NZ Super has developed ...

Fast fashion industry facing sustainability "inflection point": Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
Fast fashion garment brands globally as well as in Australia are facing a potential "inflection point" to their business model, with pressures from increased labour and environmental costs predicted to impact on how companies access factories overseas ...

RIAA designs Responsible Returns consumer website

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has designed a website to match retail investors and financial advisers with responsible and ethical products to meet their profile. Simon O'Connor, RIAA CEO The site, Responsible Returns, matches ...

Connecting off-grid communities with renewable tech: AllGrid Energy

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
AllGrid Energy, an Indigenous-owned and operated company, is implementing a strategy to place solar panel and battery storage systems in remote, off-grid Indigenous communities in Australia. AllGrid Energy, which launched last year as a partnership ...

Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership to offer director program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership (CISL) is offering a non-executive director programme for the first time in Melbourne next year, as an extension of its sustainability training programmes for corporate executives. Terence ...

Oliver Yates to step down as Clean Energy Finance Corporation CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO Oliver Yates is stepping down from the position. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO Yates has worked as CEO since the CEFC was founded in 2013. The CEFC board has now commenced a CEO ...

Corporate governance, quality linked as investment factors: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
Good corporate governance and quality as investment factors are converging as a measure of long-term risk adjusted return on equities, according to Northern Trust Asset Management. Michael Hunstad, head of quantitative research global equity management ...

ARENA grants $18m to Queensland combined wind, solar, storage project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has committed up to AU$18 million for a project combining solar, wind and battery storage to be built in North Queensland. The AU$18 million is in the form of recoupable grant funding for a Windlab and ...

VicSuper publishes 2016 annual report using IR, GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
Superannaution fund VicSuper has reported assets under management of $16.36 billion and a 1.87% net return on its default MySuper growth option as part of its 2015/2016 annual report. Kirsten Simpson, VicSuper corporate responsibility manager The superannuation ...

Ethical Investment Week to bust the ethical investment return myth

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
While demand for retail ethical investment products continues to grow, the Ethical Advisers' Co-Operative continues to chisel away at the persistent "myth" that ethical investing is a choice between investing to a set of values and financial return ...