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Government allocates additional funds for microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Community Sector Banking has extended its Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) contract with the federal government and received an additional AU$448,800 in pilot funding. Community Sector Banking is a specialist banking provider for the ...

Colonial First State GAM to drive further ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Investments outside of Australia/New Zealand, manages US$160 billion across a range of global asset classes and markets. The fund manager is a top-quartile performer according to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) rankings, but CFSCAM ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... everything is rising, that lower quality securities outperformed. But the portfolio has adjusted for this and since inception the fund is still preforming above the benchmark." Hartnett noted that the IFC bond issue, of which LGS purchased US$6m, a treasury-style ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
It is the goal of sustainability practitioners to establish corporate social responsibility (CSR) to provide the company with processes and responsibilities to respond resiliently to both everyday interactions and to the extraordinary situations that ...

Perpetual hires philanthropic services manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Perpetual has hired Caitriona Fay as philanthropic services manager for Perpetual Private, its wealth advice arm. Fay comes to Perpetual from The Ian Potter Foundation, where she was senior program manager. She is a member of the Leading Learning in ...

AMP Capital invests in North American wind farm portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... and Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI). The investment from AMP Capital was made on behalf of a large Australian superannuation fund client, AMP Capital said, and it will help fund the growth of the wind energy project portfolios. Capistrano Wind Partners ...

Low Carbon Australia forms alliance with Wiley

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... pipeline. LCAL is an independent company established in 2010 by the Australian government and manages an AU$84.6m investment fund which provides finance to improve energy efficiency and achieve carbon abatement in the property and industry sectors. See ...

Local Government Super sells upgraded property

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Partners Group. The property had been retrofitted to 6-star NABERS rating and received a $439,000 grant from the Green Building Fund, which was 50% of the upgrade costs incurred, said Brian Churchill, LGS property portfolio manager. "[SKM House] moved ...

Australian Ethical survey identifies savings as top priority

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... in their lifetime, and as we start to live more conscious lifestyles people will demand that their investments, which will fund their retirement lifestyle, reflect their values." Australian Ethical also reported that while over 80% of Australians identified ...

US$178.5bn in sustainable investments in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... US$1.42 billion and net inflows to existing portfolios of US$186 million," the report said. "The average responsible investment fund delivered higher returns than the average mainstream fund across one, three, five and seven years, and for Australian ...