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Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... investments. Impax used the MSCI World Index as the baseline and then presented four alternative approaches to portfolio construction, built around the theory of fossil fuel divestment. In the first scenario, the fossil free portfolio, Impax removed ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation makes first investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... two wind projects in New South Wales and Victoria. CEFC will provide AU$37.5 million in senior debt finance for the construction and operation of the Taralga Wind Farm, 45 km north of Goulburn, NSW. CEFC are participating in the international consortium ...

Barclays and MSCI launch ESG Fixed Income Indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... versions." The third category builds on a research paper into equities and ESG - Optimizing ESG Factors in Portfolio Construction, published in February by MSCI Barra Applied Research. The research paper used three strategies - underweighting negatively ...

GBCA: Green Star buildings more efficient, less wasteful

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... pressure on infrastructure as well, GBA noted. Green-Star certified buildings also have reduced waste. The average new construction project has a 58% recycling rate. By comparison, Green Star - As Built certified buildings recycled 96% of their construction ...

SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... second loan, to fund the purchase of housing units in a retirement home park in Tasmania. The loan is towards the construction and installation of four, two-bedroom prefabricated units for the community operated group, Myrtle Park Retirement Homes Inc. ...

SIRIS placed into administration, company confirms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... proprietary data software platform, PrSIM (Profiling Sustainable Investment Metrics). The company provides portfolio construction and compliance, corporate governance and proxy voting and advisory services. "The intent is that the internal creditors ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... the impacts of climate change, energy cost and carbon risk on investments in the mining and minerals, property and construction, and oil and gas sectors. The likelihood of more than two degrees of global warming in coming decades means that investors ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... City of Sydney's first environmental upgrade agreement (EUA) - a $26.5 million financing deal that will fund the construction of a gas-powered trigeneration plant to provide energy to an upcoming development. Inside the trigen plant room: Niall McCarthy ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... research is providing essential extra-financial information on companies for investment decision-making and portfolio construction."

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... beyondblue, a not-for-profit mental health organisation. Abigroup wanted to target mental health as it related to the construction industry, and Marshall noted that suicide was six times as likely to be the cause of death to a worker in the construction ...