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Local Government Super adopts private equity ESG framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Local Government Super (LGS) has adopted a new environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework for private equity investment. Bill Hartnett The ESG Disclosure Framework is the result of a global coalition of 40 limited partners, 20 private equity ...

Westpac focuses on demographics, environment in strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... figure in Westpac's sustainability strategy is the AU$6 billion the bank has said it will make available for lending and investment to the CleanTech and environmental services sector over the term of this sustainability strategy and an additional AU$2 ...

SIRIS placed into administration, company confirms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Independent sustainability research firm the Sustainable Investment Research Institute (SIRIS) has been put administration, the company confirms. "We've been trying for about 18 months to find what we've referred to as a strategic investor, where what ...

NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... trainees from the local high school, encouraging the branch managers to go out and find the kids - make more of their investment. That takes time to bed down and adds a layer of complexity to what's complex to begin with." In addition to the school-based ...

Companies advised to manage carbon price future uncertainty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... market is likely to stay in place until mid-2014. "The biggest impact is what all this uncertainty does in terms of investment decision-making, particularly long term investment decision making," de Wit said. "We don't know if the carbon price is here ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Major Superannuation Funds, an annual gathering of superannuation fund executives and will focus on other actors in the investment value chain, including fund managers, Fabian said. The reports consider the same set of impacts in climate change and in ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... out there and it's time to go to the next stage of expanding the business." Gales has extensive experience in social investment - he has been involved in the development of social benefit bonds in NSW and in the establishment in the Phoenix Fund in the ...

Northern Trust launches emerging markets ESG index, fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... Northern Trust fund are designed to give exposure to potential growth and diversification benefits of emerging markets investment while incorporating ESG screening. "We see an increasing demand for exposure to emerging markets, particularly among our ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Eureka Funds Management and Frasers Property have signed the City of Sydney's first environmental upgrade agreement (EUA) - a $26.5 million financing deal that will fund the construction of a gas-powered trigeneration plant to provide energy to an upcoming ...

Government to maintain existing Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... pollution by 119 million tonnes over the life of the scheme. Supporters of keeping the RET in place said it would create investment uncertainty that would undermine existing and future renewable energy investment. "We are seeing the beginning of a real ...