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Aust/NZ investors committed to ESG in alt investments: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
Investors in Australia and New Zealand are strongly committed to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations in their alternative asset investments, according to Mercer. Helga Birgden, head of responsible investing for Asia ...

RobecoSAM launches 2015 assessment for DJSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
RobecoSAM has launched the 2015 corporate sustainability assessment, its annual evaluation that is the basis for the construction of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI). RobecoSAM has invited more than 3,400 of the largest companies, based on ...

ASIC issues report on payday lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... of approximately 125% since 2008, and means that payday lenders represent 0.4% of the total consumer credit market in Australia. By way of comparison, ASIC notes the payday lending industry in the United Kingdom "is estimated to be writing £2.5 billion ...

Climate Bonds Initiative looks to China's green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... appropriate financing structure," said Jenny Merkley, associate director climate change and sustainability group at KPMG in Australia. "They need to have a need to be raising debt in this way. Does that fit with their debt profile and what they're trying ...

Inflection Point CM to launch Carbon Zero fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... impacting on reducing carbon emissions, Kiernan said. Kiernan spoke to The Sustainability Report this week while in Australia. The fund will be open to Australian institutional investors, but Inflection Point "haven't yet established retail relationships," ...

Mirvac integrates sustainability in "place-making" thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... residential sector groups in Sydney and Melbourne, and we did a review of megatrends that would affect our work here in Australia." The internal and external stakeholder conversations revealed that perceptions about real estate - commercial, retail and ...

Investors consider ESG in alternative assets: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... management, according to the survey. LGT Capital Partners and Mercer surveyed 97 institutional investors across 22 countries. Australia/NZ respondents constituted 12% of the total participants in the survey. Australian/NZ investors and European investors ...

Super funds show 5.7% jump in percentage of women directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... there has been a deterioration in the number of women on boards at state owned corporations in Queensland and Western Australia, and at the federal level. The report noted that the percentage of women on boards at federally owned corporations fell form ...

Increase in ASX board cultural diversity: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... increased, but boardrooms do not yet reflect the broader Australian community, according to research from Diversity Council Australia (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia DCA partnered with Deakin University to analyse cultural diversity ...

NAB places second green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank has placed another green bond - this time $205 million in the United States bond markets to finance an Australian wind farm, the bank has announced. The bond funding is for the Hallett Hill (HH2) wind farm in South Australia ...