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Chart: CDP assessment of APRA-regulated entities' climate disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... Performance band AMP AMP AU B Australia and New Zealand Banking Group ANZ AU A- Bendigo and Adelaide Bank BEN AU C BT Investment Management BTT AU D Challenger CGF AU D Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA AU A- Insurance Australia Group IAG AU A- Macquarie ...

Majority of APAC investors have an ESG investment framework: State Street

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... State Street survey say that they are implementing an environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework in their investment process. Kastrapeli, vice president, head of sustainable investment research at State Street's Centre for Applied Research ...

CEFC allocates $80 million to Bodangora wind farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... Allied Technical Construction (CATCON). The CEFC's $80 million commitment to the Bodangora wind farm is its second major investment in wind generation in regional NSW in the past year, following its recent commitment of $120 million to the $588 million ...

CEFC appoints Ian Learmonth as new chief executive officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... affordable housing and the built environment, and Learmonth has also served as an independent member of the CEFC Executive Investment Committee for the past nine months. "The CEFC has come a very long way over its first five years -there are now 80 people ...

S&P DJI launches Green Bond Select Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... criteria that makes it more investable, tradable and accessible." The index is constructed from green bonds with a minimum investment grade of BBB-/Baa3/BBB-. Disclosures of green credentials may be based on credible information from a company's web ...

Global sustainable, responsible, impact assets hit $22tr: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
Global sustainable, responsible and impact (SRI) investment assets reached US$22.89 trillion as of the beginning of 2016, including $516 billion in assets from Australia/New Zealand, according to the 2016 Global Sustainable Investment Review (GSIA). ...

Video: Aligning Your Investments with the Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... by MSCI and Blackrock, that considered the implications of the SDGSs, the ways in which the SDGs can be applied to investment strategies, how investors and asset managers can calculate the impacts of their investments and other issues. Aligning Your ...

Remerga launches Emerging Markets Sustainable Leaders Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
Specialist emerging markets investment manager Remerga is launching its first fund, the Emerging Markets Sustainable Leaders Fund. The fund will offer Australian investors access to a concentrated portfolio of stocks in emerging markets including South ...

Queensland Treasury Corporation issues $750m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... seven-year green bond certified by the Climate Bonds Initiative. Queensland State Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment Curtis Pitt The QTC Green Bond has a coupon of 3% and is the largest and longest tenor Australian dollar-denominated green ...

ACSI appoints two new members to board of directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... $1.5 trillion. The focus of ACSI's research, policy and representation is environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment risks and opportunities. Other board members include Gerard Noonan chair, Media Super (President), Trish Donohue, executive ...