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Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... credit committee. He is on the board and audit committee of Challenger Infrastructure Fund and Challenger Diversified Property Fund and previously served as a board member and chair of the risk committee of hedge fund Artesian Capital Management. Skarbek ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund invests in Swanston St retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... not a revenue generating entity, a SMF spokesperson said. They manage the common areas in a building without owning the property and thus don't have the traditional security required by lenders. The SMF board decided to approve the investment, based ...

Low Carbon Australia joins Climate Bond Standard group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... bonds investment-grade for interested investors such as pension funds, and finally the need for models such as PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) to be used in the municipal and community space that can scale up adoption". See Also: Report: US$174bn ...

City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
Property trusts will be able to access environmental upgrade finances in the City of Melbourne, opening up 42% of the city's lettable commercial property space environmental upgrade agreements (EUAs) for energy and waste efficiency upgrades. Scott Bocskay ...

IIGCC urges greater energy efficiency for EU property sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
Regulations governing energy efficiency in the property sector across the European Union need to be addressed to overcome split incentives, to aid in refurbishing existing built stock and to exploit opportunities for sustainability improvements throughout ...

Foresters launches Social Investment Australia lending fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... subsidiary Social Investment Australia (SIA) has launched a new fund offering financing to non-profits seeking to buy property. SIA has launched the Community Finance Fund Non-Profit, which will "employ community finance and social investment strategies ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... managed funds and superannuation. Its flagship Smaller Companies Trust will divest itself of all offshore equities, and the Property Trust has been closed to all but wholesale investors, Smith said. "A lot of this has been a planned managed process over ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... this has been establishing a new innovative finance model within an environment of patchy confidence in the commercial property market. But these three projects represent a good pilot sample of the different opportunities that exist out there." EUAs ...

SEFA selects Queensland social enterprise for first loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... mission and good entrepreneurship. Rickards said. "Secondly, there are management rights over the accommodation, and the property was being sold at an attractive price. Then, Three Sistas had a good business proposal - it uses a model that is already ...

Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... and stay competitive with cost saving efficiencies." Among other clients, Pangolin has been working with intellectual property law firm FB Rice since 2007/2008 on energy efficiency and carbon reduction. According to a case study from Pangolin, FB Rice ...