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Mercer: green bonds deserve investment consideration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... adapt to the impacts of climate change. They combine that explicit environmental mission with a similar profile to standard debt instruments, covering treasury-style bonds, treasury-style retail offerings "involving a coupon linked to carbon credits ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... has been to explain and promote the EUA structure and utility. "If you say to a property CFO, you can finance this through debt, through equity or through an or EUA, they say, what's an EUA," Bocskay said. "You have to go into a complete and thorough ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... -countries like US and Japan. The reason that we're underweight Japan is the high reliance on nuclear energy and the bad debt situation. Japan is an interesting one. Demographics come into play - the gap between young and the old isn't great. And also ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) has moved all of its nearly AU$170m government bond allocation to a strategy that explicitly incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis into the selection process, including a specific allocation of ...

New South Wales announces first social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... leap to the social impact bond." Westpac has generated the funding structure for the bond, which will create tranches of debt with differing levels of risk and corresponding levels of return, aimed at attracting investors who are seeking levels of return ...

Clean Energy Council sees CEFC as catalyst to unlock capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... the CEFC could play a role, including funding projects in the capital intensive phase of technology development, tenor of debt suitable for renewable energy infrastructure projects, smaller scale renewable energy projects, institutional investor allocations ...

GPT Group reports 2011 reductions in waste, energy and water

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... sectors, and has a funds management arm as well. GPT noted that during the 2011 financial year, they reduced the average cost of debt to 6.6%, 80 basis points lower than 2010, "achieved by using proceeds from non-core asset sales and the sell-down of ...

City of Melbourne to hold EUA sessions for building sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... the collection of the EUC. The repayment structure and its existence as a statutory charge make the EUAs a form of senior debt. In addition to the Melbourne-based sessions, Bocskay will also be travelling to Europe to talk about the EUA structure and ...

MSCI launches ESG ratings for sovereign bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... factors might impact the long-term sustainability of an economy. MSCI said the ratings aim to complement traditional sovereign debt analysis for analyzing a country's creditworthiness. "Integrating ESG into the investment process is the first principle ...

IGCC working group engages on green finance design, function

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... Climate Bonds Standards Board, developed by the UK-based Climate Bonds Initiative to establish a set of standards to assess debt issuances from a climate perspective. IGCC took a position on the Climate Bonds Standards Board to provide input into development ...