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Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds have relatively simple structures and credit quality and yield levels similar to AAA bonds, meriting "consideration as an allocation within a fixed interest portfolio," but a lack of issuance depth is a challenge for institutional investors ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Environmental upgrade financing vehicles in the City of Melbourne have funded AU$4.9m in energy and emissions efficiency retrofit programs and are projected to save 5350 tonnes of CO2-e emissions per year, according to the Sustainable Melbourne Fund. ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... to develop the framework by October of this year, and are calling on companies to disclose their methane emissions and control plans under the framework, and to implement best practice and use technologies that effectively eliminate most methane emissions. ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Omega Global Investors is a specialist fixed income investment manager based in Melbourne. Omega received a nearly AU$170m mandate from the nearly AU$6bn Local Government Super superannuation fund to implement a global government bond strategy that ...

AMP Capital fund buys stake in Indian clean energy company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... ESG matters in the project due diligence stage and in the operational phase, consistent with the amount of operational control that AMP Capital has on an asset," AMP Capital told The Sustainability Report. Alison Cunniffe is ESG and sustainability manager ...

Report: US$174bn global market for climate-themed bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
There is USD$174bn worth of climate-themed bonds outstanding today, covering sectors including energy, building and industry, climate finance, water, waste and pollution controls, agriculture and forestry, according to a report by the Climate Bonds ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Listed media companies are impacted by ethical and governance issues as well as industry-wide disruptive innovations, and investors should research carefully to avoid potential value traps, according to AMP Capital. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny The media sector ...

Carbon price to bring reporting and compliance complexities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... has to have the obligation on the facility. Liability with respect to facilities sits with the person who has operation control of the facility." Liable entities can transfer liabilities to another corporate group to optimise liability structures and ...

Fund management bodies oppose ASX share placements proposal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... raising option." ACSI also raised the spectre of a potential shareholder going from a zero per cent holding to up to a 20% "control" threshold at a discount to trading volumes in a day, without the company having to gain approval or even inform existing ...

Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... owns 48% of Brickworks (BKW) and BKW owns 42.9% of SOL); use of the cross ownership and shared directors to; entrench control of minority shareholders, the Millner; family, over both companies; lack of an independent audit committee for SOL; lack of ...