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Nippon Gas buys stake in COzero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Japan's Nippon Gas has bought a 16% stake in COzero, the energy management solutions provider has announced. Nick Armstrong, CEO COzero The investment will give Nippon Gas access to COzero's energy solutions, including EnergyLink, a newly developed ...

PRI: ESG factors material to sovereign bond creditworthiness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... has served them for decades." The PRI Sovereign Fixed Income Working Group included representatives from AEGON Asset Management, AllianceBernstein L.P. Allianz Global Investors, Allianz SE, ASR Nederland N.V., ATP, AXA Investment Managers, Bank J. Safra ...

Companies lag on implementing UN Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... performance targets and indicators, consumption and responsible use, cleaner and safer production, supplier policy, management systems and employee training and awareness - each of those activities were reported by more than 60% of respondents. Meanwhile ...

NAB, Westpac leaders in 2013 CDP Global 500

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Index and collected by CDP at the request of 722 institutional investors representing US$87 trillion in assets under management. According to the CDP report, total scope 1 and 2 emissions from the Global 500 have fallen steadily from 4.2 billion metric ...

Mariner Investment Group selects MSCI ESG Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... forward to working with Mariner as we expand the scope of our ESG research and reporting tools for the alternative asset management industry." Mariner Investment Group has approximately US$10 billion in assets under management in direct and affiliated ...

YES BANK signs on to Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... balance sheet. The NCD aims to provide insight to uncover these and solutions how to address these issues in credit risk management and product development." In June, NCD announced that it had started the next phase of its plan in which the financial ...

NGS Super to launch stand-along SRI fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... will be competitively priced in relation to other NGS Super options - Rodwell-Ball said that the option could have a management expense ratio (MER) of between 70-80 basis points, depending on the final asset allocation, which is reasonably closely related ...

Australian/NZ property continue dominance in GRESB survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... aspect generates a total GRESB score on a scale of 1 to 100. The total GRESB score is also divided into two dimensions - management and policy and implementation and measurement. GRESB ranks organisations in four categories - green starter, green talk ...

City of Melbourne, NAB, Eureka Funds Management sign EUA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Eureka Funds Management and National Australia Bank (NAB) have financed a AU$7 million environmental upgrade agreement (EUA) that will retrofit a Melbourne office tower to reduce carbon emissions by more than 600 tonnes a year. Signing of the AU$7 million ...

ASX to include ESG disclosures in governance principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... most companies can articulate how they manage financial risk, the proposed changes ask them to disclose their risk management practices across the whole triple bottom line," said Terence Jeyaretnam, Net Balance director. "Understanding and managing key ...