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Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... no different for the investment industry. A fund manager could say that markets are inefficient, and therefore I believe money should be invested here. Our industry always wants to focus on investment risk and to try to put values criteria to one side. ...

AMP Capital assesses ESG risks in food, beverage sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... that's one response," he said. "The other response is to reduce portion size on foods, and that, ironically, can make more money. Another response is self-regulation and voluntary initiatives, such as responsible marketing, e.g. no advertising during ...

ASX50 companies not making strategic case for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... for the business," Whitaker said. "A core frustration of ESG investors is how to understand the way companies are spending money on sustainability. Companies are not articulating it within the context of the report, and investors aren't in a position ...

Interest in green, social bonds continuing: JPMorgan Chase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... market, the retail investor is particularly important. If you're a municipality, your taxpayers really want to know where the money is going and what it's doing to help communities. So for municipalities, green bonds are very attractive. The demand from ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... degrees in their decisions as to whether they should exit those investments, and/or make new investments elsewhere, invest money into renewables or emerging sources of energy which might replace fossil fuels," El Hassan said. "Climate change may be one ...

KPMG: top global miners make $1.2bn in social investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... impact on the investments' efficiencies and maximised benefits. "I think companies understand that they can't just throw money at a project, that you do have to get the best bang for the buck," said Carl Adams, head of mining, KPMG Australia. "But they're ...

Catholic Super makes case for global climate policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... de-risk the portfolios when we're investing. Part of the [Caring for Climate] effort was to say to the world, you worry about money for these projects and say there's no money to do this. There is money. Investors are ready to put money behind a framework ...

SuperMIND calculates costs of mental illness, suicide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... "What insurers have identified is that earlier they can be involved in someone's absence from work in terms of spending money to get people into the right rehabilitative programs and speaking with the right people, they can potentially limit the future ...

NAB, Good Shepherd Microfinance launch national campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... published results of new research conducted by Newspoll, which found that 18.7% of Australian adults "rarely or never have any money left at the end of a pay cycle." People living in regional Australia are more likely to run out of money at the end of ...

SVA: Newpin social benefit bond returns 7.5% in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... tranches - an AU$7.5 million capital guaranteed component with return based on agreed performance outcomes reflecting the money saved by the New South Wales government by keeping families together. The junior tranche of AU$2.5 million was partially funded ...