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CEFC allocates more than AU$930m in first full year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has allocated investment of more than AU$930 million dollars in projects with total value of over AU$3.2 billion in its first full year of investing. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO ...

Climate Bond Standard to establish water investment criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). The working group will look at investment areas including clean water projects, water treatment infrastructure, agricultural usage, storm and flood drainage and protection. ...

Role for custodian in ESG data analytics: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Institutional investors throughout Asia are taking environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into account in their investment portfolios, and custodian BNP Paribas Securities Services are providing data analytical services to assist clients ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... fossil fuel or high carbon emission intensity assets should be grounded in the fund's governance processes towards investment issues and is bounded by legal and regulatory standards for fund trustees. Expert panel discusses process surrounding fossil ...

Interest in green, social bonds continuing: JPMorgan Chase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... social benefit bonds as well, according to JPMorgan Chase. Marilyn Ceci, managing director, JPMorgan Chase corporate investment bank Marilyn Ceci, managing director at JPMorgan Chase corporate investment bank, was in Australia last week to meet with ...

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... recognise that shareholders themselves are not a monolithic group, and have differing agendas and values based on their investment horizon and values. "There is a growing difference between retail shareholders and institutional shareholders who have ...

oekom research: ESG ratings improve bond performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Robert HaBler, CEO of oekom research. "The portfolios of investors who use oekom Prime status as a basis for their investment decisions will therefore contain securities from companies with an above-averagely-high equity ratio." oekom Prime status is ...

Lonsec: responsible investment equity funds outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Responsible investment Australian equity funds outperformed the ASX300 index and the Australian equity peer group over one and three year time periods, according to researcher Lonsec. Steven Sweeney, senior investment analyst, Lonsec Lonsec released ...

Impact Investing Australia hires Daniel Madhavan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Madhavan comes to Impact Investing Australia from JBWere, where he worked for 12 years in a range of roles including investment advisor, head of NSW, chief operating officer and most recently, acting CEO. "Daniel has an impressive record as a leader ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... fuels and trustees' obligations around the valuation of fossil fuel assets given global climate change regulation and investment trends. Fossil fuel assets do not yet represent a material risk because of climate change, but divestment is one of the investment ...