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RIAA conference to consider impact of consumer demand for ethical funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... financial services industry, the key theme of the upcoming Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) annual RI Australia conference. The RI Australia conference will consider how the responsible investment industry can use consumer insights ...

CEFC identifies Australian states with best incentives for bioenergy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has identified New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as having policies that create an incentive for the deployment of energy from waste and bioenergy ...

Cash Converters to pay more than $12 million after ASIC investigation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
Payday lender Cash Converters will refund AU$10.8 million to consumers and has paid an AU$1.35 million penalty after an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ASIC agreed to ...

Australia, NZ assets perform strongly in GRESB Infrastructure Assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... strong, with an average fund score of 54 out of 100, while the overeall assessment found anaverage score is 28 out of 100. Australia and New Zealand assets scored an average of 35, while diversified assets scored 43, North America scored 28, Europe scored ...

IGCC hails Australian ratification of Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... signal" to investors that carbon risk is a financial risk. "This announcement sends an important signal to the world that Australia supports action on climate change," said Emma Herd, IGCC chief executive officer. "We now need to focus on scaling up ...

SSGA launches tobacco, controversial weapons-free global equities fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... with Medibank Private providing AU$170 million of seed capital. The index tracks the performance of the MSCI World Ex Australia ex Tobacco ex Controversial Weapons Index. It excludes more than 10 companies in its parent index, the MSCI World Index, which ...

Carbon footprint impacts on company share price: AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... just research for us," said Kathryn McDonald, Rosenberg Equities's director of investment strategy, who was recently in Australia. "The thing about doing the same kind of experiment in other markets is not about treating total carbon as an expense, but ...

Impact Investing Australia surveys $1.2bn impact investment universe

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
There has been a steady increase in the number of impact investments over recent years in Australia, with the bulk of transactions consisting of debt finance to social enterprises, while domestically issued green bonds also showed increases in dollar ...

Banks consider the implications of Sustainable Development Goals

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
In the year since the launch of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Australia's Big Four banks have been mapping their performance against these goals and which goals are relevant to their business strategies. The SDGs came into ...

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 ...