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Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... continents, including 37 in Australia. Only three universities in Australia - Charles Sturt University, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University - received D ratings, whilst the remaining 34 received X ratings, "indicating that ...

CBRE commits to increasing green space in Australia, NZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... New Zealand, said Amanda Steele, head of sustainability, CBRE Pacific. "We've expanded it already, rolled it out in the Sydney office," Steele said. "I work in the Sydney office, and I enjoy it. A lot of our clients have commented on it as well." Thus ...

Financial System Inquiry recommends on impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... to encourage further impact investing - was pushed off to a taxation white paper process. Last year, the University of Sydney published two reports - Impact Investment: Perspectives for Australian Superannuation Funds and Impact Investments: Perspectives ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... housing finance deal, providing AU$61 million in debt finance to SGCH for the construction of 275 new dwellings in the Sydney metropolitan region. SGCH is one of the largest community housing providers in Australia and houses over 8,000 people in 4,300 ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... their portfolio, their governance structure and their legal responsibilities, panelists told the standing-room crowd in Sydney. Superannuation fund trustees have a legal responsibility to exercise care, skill and diligence in relation to all matters ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... financial backers of the fund as well. Future Super's trustee is the Trust Company, and the fund's assets are managed by Sydney boutique fund manager Grosvenor Pirie. Sheikh is the fund's managing director, while Verwey is executive director. The executive ...

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... coincidence that our portfolio is clustered, geographically. We have three loans out in Cairns, two in Brisbane, three in Sydney, and two in Tasmania. We are seeing clustering, partly because of the economics, but also because you're getting into the ...

EY buys Net Balance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... said. When the acquisition is completed in late September, Net Balance will relocate staff to EY offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

ARENA allocates $21.5m to solar R&D projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... the Australian National University (5), the University of New South Wales (4), CSIRO (3) and the University of Technology Sydney (1), ARENA said. They were selected from a pool of 110 applications through the first round of ARENA's Research and Development ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Australia's first offering and funds the Newpin program run by UnitingCare Burnside, which operates out of four centres in Sydney's west. The program is designed to prevent children entering foster care and improve the rate of children being safely returned ...