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Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... moment, the available pool of credit-worthy green bonds is mostly limited to supranational and multilateral development banks (MDBs), forming a US$12bn market. In October, State Street Global Advisers (SSgA) announced the launch of the High Quality Green ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... mediu8m-sized customers in New Zealand, ranking as the top 1 and 2 for Net Promoter Score (NPS) in Australia amongst the major banks, and to be a top 3 regional player in carbon related markets by 2013. On the employee front, Westpac will continue to ...

Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... rating of 75.2%, slightly lower than last year and putting the bank in 4 th place against the other three main Australia banks, against a backdrop of full year net profits of AU$6.39bn. The 75.2% customer satisfaction rate, as measured by Roy Morgan ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... "Australian companies raised AU$99bn in 2008/2009 and 45% was done by way of placements which aren't accessible to the public. Banks earned AU$2bn in fee and the placements happened at an average 13.5% discount to the prevailing market place. We're selling ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Investors Group on Climate Change (IGCC)'s new Low-Carbon Finance Working Group will play a stakeholder role with "green" financing institutions both domestically and overseas, consulting with the institutions being established by governments to ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Norton Rose said he participated in Austrade seminars in London about the legislation and said that there was interest from banks and investors about investing in Australia. "There was a lot of interest in that," he said. "Actually, I think you'll see ...

Sustainability measures decline in information technology

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... the typical economy's total electricity consumption," Rowe said. "In some organisations that rely heavily on ICT, such as banks, government and many other administrative industries, ICT can account for up to 75% of all energy consumption."

Investor Profile: Local Government Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... to put together a fixed interest fund which has very good ESG credentials, you'd end up with a lot of bank credit because banks are very good in putting out sustainability policies and to some extent paying the ratings game. Q: With AU$3.1bn of the fund's ...

ANZ files report for United Nations Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... employees with training, and will work with stakeholders to encourage support for the approach and incorporate them into the banks' business practices. In terms of managing environmental exposures, the bank has developed an environmental management system ...