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Former SA Premier Rann appointed Low Carbon Australia Chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... elected by the board as chairman in June. Since its operational launch in 2010, Low Carbon Australia has contracted investment of AU$35m, which has generated a new financing and markets for energy efficiency projects to currently make available more ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... the background, because it's not just what [companies] say, but also what they don't say that matters." See Also: ESG investment analysis - answering the "so-what" question

Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... big shock if they expect that, because a lot of price increases over the coming years will be due to infrastructure investment, not the carbon price." Companies are approaching Pangolin for audits and assessments a number of reasons, including cost and ...

Fund management bodies oppose ASX share placements proposal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) and the Financial Services Council (FSC) are opposing a proposal by the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) to allow small to mid-cap companies to issue discounted new shares to investors via placements. ...

Perpetual to extend ESG dashboard to fixed income space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
Investment manager Perpetual will continue to roll out its dashboard report approach to embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into investment decisions, including further reports on its universe of equities and preparing ...

Skills shortage in oil and gas sector a material ESG risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... to the environment, and to capital expenditure projects for exploration and production, according to a report by AXA Investment Managers' responsible investment team. Matt Christensen The AXA IM report investigates the link between what they saw as a ...

Climate change realities necessitate superannuation response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... regulatory initiatives runs into the thousands." With that as the backdrop, David Paradice, portfolio manager of Paradice Investment Management and a member of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) expert review explained how the corporation can ...

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... and energy consumption, but the reporting on that is all ad hoc." In terms of integrating sustainability metrics into investment decision-making, fund are also reporting higher activity levels - 46% say they have a standardised approach to communicating ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... "Our approach is sustainability as a business case for the customer," she said. "Our approach is to show the return on investment, how much savings you can have if you look into your energy costs, environmental costs, emissions, paper usage and so on. ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
NAB, Good Shepherd Microfinance and the Victorian state government have launched an AU$7.8m retail project to provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people in Victoria. Good Shepherd ...