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ARENA fund Laing O'Rourke redeployable solar hybrid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will allocate $450,000 in funding to Laing O'Rourke to support a $1.4 million redeployable, large-scale solar-diesel hybrid power plant pilot project. Global construction company Laing O'Rourke would be ...

Australian Ethical names new portfolio manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
Fund manager Australian Ethical has appointed Mason Willoughby-Thomas portfolio manager of the AU$277 million Australian Ethical Larger Companies Trust. Willoughby-Thomas has worked at the ethical fund manager for more than two years. He will replace ...

Australian Forestry Standard releases supply chain standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
The Australian Forest Certification Scheme (AFSC)'s chain of custody standard has been revised to meet international best practice as timber products move through the supply chain, according to the Australian Forestry Standard (AFS). The AFS is a not-for-profit ...

Net Balance: sustainability assurance increase in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... miscommunication over the G3 plus system. G4 is helping the transparency of assurance." There is also an emerging trend for Australian companies to report not only on environmental indicators, but also social indicators, particularly human rights issues ...

ARENA announces $100 million support for Moree Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has committed AU$101.7 million of support to the Moree Solar Farm, a large scale solar plant that will shortly begin construction. Renewable energy company Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) is set to begin ...

UCA Funds Management adds Transfield Services to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... its exclusion list because of human rights concerns stemming from Transfields' contract to provide services at the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds ...

AGL installs first solar panels at Nyngan solar plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... modules. The installation of the first solar panels was attended by local, state and federal officials, including the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), one of the entities to provide funding for the project. The $440 million 155 MW project ...

Oncologist leads drive for tobacco stock divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Since 2011, 16 superannuation funds have divested from AU$1.2 billion in tobacco stocks, and one Melbourne oncologist has made it her cause to persuade the superannuation industry to divest from the rest of what she estimates is a total of AU$8.5 billion ...

RIAA: Increased public demand for responsible investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... underlined - as it has in years past - that responsible investments outperform wider benchmarks. Core responsible investment Australian equities funds have outperformed the ASX 300 index and the large cap Australian equities fund average over 1, 3, 5 ...

JANA: Majority of fixed income managers consider ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... think that ESG does matter," said Steven Carew, JANA's head of investment research and outcomes. "Consistent with our Australian and global equity surveys conducted over recent years, governance is seen as the most important factor. It is interesting ...