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ANZ to partner with AWA in SE Asia program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... commodity sectors in ways that other assets do not, noted Christina Tonkin, ANZ managing director of global loans and advisory. "Banks are structured along particular industry lines," Tonkin said. "You'll have property, resources, and within that you'll ...

ANZ issues $600m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... around 21% to insurance companies, and then the rest was split between other accounts - 7% went to middle market, 6% went to banks, 3% went to councils, 3% to central banks, 3% to semi-government banks, 1% to private banks. Some of the orders were quite ...

Teachers Mutual Bank win AB +F ESG award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... years in a row. "It is a great honour to again receive this award, in a field that includes some of Australia's biggest banks," said Steve James, Teachers Mutual Bank CEO. "Sustainability is embedded in who we are as a bank, what we do and why we do ...

Vote Your Pension platform calls for global member action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility's campaign to introduce climate change resolutions at the AGMs of the big four banks in Australia last year, Poulter noted. One of the other aims of the Vote Your Pension campaign is to shed further light ...

New Forests launches responsible investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... under management, and manages 395,000 hectares of certified plantation forests as well as wetland and stream mitigation banks and forest carbon offset projects. The manager has four main vehicles - the Australia New Zealand Forest Fund (ANZFF) and the ...

bankmecu to participate in GABV bank investment fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015  |  NEWS
bankmecu will participate in an open-ended impact investment fund that will provide values-based banks with capital to promote growth. Damien Walsh, bankmecu managing director The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), of which bankmecu is a ...

Climate Bonds Initiative looks to China's green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... push to green the Chinese economy, Kidney said. He noted that there is a PBOC working group looking at green loans and how banks' risk coverage ratio can be adjusted to give positive weightings to verified green bonds. "There is an overarching sense ...

Future Home Loans to broker fossil fuel free loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... launched Future Home Loans, a mortgage broking company that will assist people in taking up or switching their home loans to banks that do not finance the expansion of the fossil fuel sector. Simon Sheikh, managing director, Future Home Loans As previously ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB on "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... (NAB) are the two Australian companies to be listed in the Ethisphere Institute's Most Ethical Companies for 2015. The two banks joined Brazil's Banco do Brasil S.A. in the Banks: National category of the list. "We are proud to have been named one of ...

Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Reporters and Investors, GRI and RobecoSAM analysed data from companies in two sectors - technology hardware and equipment and banks and diverse financials. The research focused on material aspects listed in GRI reports and RobecoSAM's investor-focused ...