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Local Councils "missing out" on clean energy solutions: CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... provider of infrastructure and are responsible for more than AU$380 billion of fixed assets and land. "By restricting investment to what can be paid for from current-year or retained income, councils face an accumulation of inefficient, out-of-date or ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund receives ARENA grant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has provided AU$425,000 in grant funding to Sustainable Melbourne Fund to assist councils in Victoria to set up environmental upgrade agreements (EUAs). Scott Bocskay, CEO of the Sustainable Melbourne Fund ...

Disconnects holding back gender diversity: EY report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... actually harness that, we're losing 50% of the talent in the country. That doesn't make any sense; think about the investment we put in to build the minds to get the diversity to get the thought, and then 10 years down the track to have that dwindle?" ...

Dimensional Fund Advisors launches Global Sustainability Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... which rank poorly on sustainability and overweights those with better sustainability practice, yielding an eligible investment universe of close to 1500 large cap securities in 22 developed countries ex-Australia. Dimensional Fund Advisors has chosen ...

Video: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... executive manager of the UN Global Compact Network Australia, Peter Murphy, CEO of Christian Super, Ian Woods, head of ESG Investment research at AMP Capital Investors and Michael Salvatico, executive director of MSCI ESG Research. Cope noted that the ...

IGCC outlines climate change policy priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... policy priorities for the next term of federal government that should be a foundation for managing risk and encouraging investment in low carbon finance opportunities. Emma Herd, CEO, IGCC IGCC identified the seven policy priorities are "stable and durable ...

Verdia to assist companies on energy efficiency project design

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) for the Westpac Energy Efficient Financing Program, which will finance business investment in projects to increase energy efficiency or transition to solar power. The Westpac Efficient Financing Program is designed ...

GRESB hires Lonneke Lowik as new head of operations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... range of real assets," Lowik said. "I look forward to working with the GRESB team to bring innovative products and investment-grade ESG data to the real asset sector. Investors need standardized monitoring and benchmarking tools to help them monitor ...

Victorian government to pilot social impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... in Australia to explore social impact bonds. NSW has already been in the vanguard in Australia around social impact investment - in 2013, the state government pioneered the first two social benefit bonds - the AU$7 million Newpin Social Benefit Bond ...

Companies, investors assessing Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... are examining Practitioners on the ground note that many investors and companies with sustainability or responsible investment policies are already accomplishing some of the goals. As a result, part of the work in this first year post-adoption is mapping ...