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Banks consider the implications of Sustainable Development Goals

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... they haven't received any from their customers. The biggest pressure comes from peers within the bank sector and other industries. Peers and other businesses are more aware of the development in the sustainability sector. Although the pressure from the ...

CEFC, Commonwealth Bank launch energy efficient finance program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... managing director asset finance. "In particular, we see huge potential for the transport, agriculture and construction industries to realise major benefits from upgrading to energy efficient technologies, including fuel efficient vehicles, and energy ...

BetaShares launches global cybersecurity exchange traded fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... time, there's been this increase. From our perspective, the industry of cybersecurity is one of the few global growth industries which is clearly identifiable and is gone beyond the headlines, it's real and significant companies are operating as global ...

AIGCC launches, releases survey on climate risk, responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... across markets in Asia-Pacific are mixed and uneven. China's banks, for example, have taken steps to restrict finance industries with high energy consumption, high pollution and excess pollution. The report also cited China's 2012 Green Credit Guidelines ...

LGS adapts investment screens for Sustainable Australian Shares option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... changes, including broadening existing screens to exclude companies that provide "significant services" to prohibited industries including armaments, weapons, tobacco, mining and gambling; a new screen that precludes investment in companies in fossil ...

NAB Asset Servicing launches ESG reporting service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... administration business. The reporting service will allow clients such as superannuation funds to drill into data through industries, market capitalisation and individual holdings to "assess and compare ESG exposures between different portfolios and ...

Banks, fund managers developing ethical cash products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... and values based investing," Pedley said. "Increasingly, charities and foundations have their own list of excluded industries and sectors as ethical becomes very much part of the mainstream rather than a niche investor segment."

BlackRock presses case for better ESG disclosures for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... definitions of ESG and developing a common lexicon. d.Providing guidance that recognises the need to tailor reporting to industries. 2.Establish safe harbour provisions that ensure companies who initiate ESG factor reporting do not face retrospective ...

ACCR highlights lack of transparency in political donations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... donations at this year's AGM season. On its website, ACCR has drafted model resolutions for the fossil fuel and banking industries. "We have draft potential resolutions on the websites, one for fossil fuel companies, and one for banks," Le Couteur said. ...

ARENA funds Southern Oil Refining biofuel lab pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... "clear potential" for biofuel production and refining in Australia, said Ivor Frischknecht, ARENA CEO. "Our agricultural industries have an abundance of plant waste that can be ideal biocrude feedstock and there are several potential markets for selling ...