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AfricaSIF to survey ESG integration into African investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
The Africa Sustainable Investment Forum ( AfricaSIF.org ), a pan-African network promoting investment in sustainable development, has launched a research project to gauge how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are integrated into investment ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Australia (LCAL), an independent company established in 2010 by the Australian government. LCAL manages an AU$84.6m investment fund which provides finance to improve energy efficiency and achieve carbon abatement in the property and industry sectors. ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... there was issuance, with "over 90% of orders coming from institutional investors with some level of ESG criteria for investment," he wrote in a piece on the Climate Bonds Initiative website. The fund will be allocated to transport and infrastructure ...

Cbus CEO David Atkin re-elected to PRI Advisory Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Cbus CEO David Atkin has been re-elected to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Advisory Council in the council's annual elections. Atkin is the Oceania representative to the PRI Advisory Council, the PRI's chief governance body. There were ...

Foresters finances Eating Disorders Victoria service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to administer the AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). SEDIF was established to improve social enterprises' access to finance to help them grow their business and ...

Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund funds Brisbane Metals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... solar technology company. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson Brisbane Metals will use the AU$1.5m and a further AU$2.5m investment from USA-based New Ventures Partners LLC (NVP) to commercialise its high -performance anti-reflective coatings, which will ...

Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... maintain a sustainable global economy. Valuing natural capital as part of an economy is a challenge because standard investment and economic measures can leave natural capital - and the impacts of its use and degradation - to the side as an externality. ...

Stockland publishes integrated 2012 annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... intensity in its office and retail properties, an 84% employee engagement score and a figure of AU$2.9m social return on investment for a typical Stockland retirement village, against a backdrop of a 7% fall in underlying profit for the 2012 financial ...

FTSE adds three Australian companies to FTSE4Good indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Coca-Cola Amatil, Suncorp Group and Tatts Group have been added to the FTSE4Good index series as part of FTSE's semi-annual review of the index and ESG ratings. FTSE added 21 companies and deleted seven countries from the index series. At the same time ...

Sean Flannery joins Climate Bonds Advisory Panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Flannery has joined the Climate Bonds Advisory Panel. Flannery is chief operating officer and director of sustainable investment strategies at Meister Consultants Group in Boston, and is a director of IFOK. He is also former CIO, Americas, of State Street ...