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Looking for social, economic return by creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... "address the needs and challenges of society," Cobourn said. One example of that mission is a project involving their construction machinery division. "The challenge was to come back to Australia and figure out how that was relevant to us, particularly ...

VicSuper chooses SSgA for active global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... returns," Mitchell said. "We use this research to directly incorporate ESG into selection of equities and portfolio construction in certain investment strategies in a quantitative manner." In late 2012, VicSuper started using a new benchmark index for ...

CEFC invests $536 million across 39 projects in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Additionally, the CEFC is providing up to $60 million of senior debt finance to Moree Solar Farm for the development and construction of a 56MW solar photovoltaic power plant in northern NSW. CEFC and National Australia Bank also co-financed a project ...

DLA Piper: climate change legal risk in property development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... infrastructure fail during a natural disaster if it can be shown that climate change impacts were not considered before construction. Baker-Jones cited the Queensland Flood Commission Inquiry which investigated flooding in Brisbane during 2010/ 2011. ...

Melbourne wins energy efficient built environment award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... billion in 2012. Employment has received a major boost with 50,000 additional jobs created over the same period. The construction and building industries, professional services and downstream real estate services have experienced the largest jobs growth." ...

CEFC in active discussions with project proponents

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... a result, within the first few days of the financial year, CEFC announced that it would provide financing for the construction and operation of a wind farm in Taralga, New South Wales and that it would participate in the refinancing of a stake in the ...

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 ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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