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City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... Australia Bank, Low Carbon Australia and Eureka Funds Management have developed for this mechanism better aligns to the nature of energy efficiency savings.... Some energy efficiency projects have a seven year simple payback. When financed over 10 years ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... IRRs." National Australia Bank, Low Carbon Australia and Eureka Funds Management have created an EUA finance product. "The nature of the product that NAB has launched is a fixed interest product of up to 10 years in term," Bocskay said. "That's a powerful ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... companies because we tend to find that with our criteria and the way we manage money, the companies we invest in, are by nature, larger cap companies. We don't invest in a lot of small- or mid-cap companies. What you find there is that the information ...

IIRC to publish integrated reporting framework in 2013

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... concerns that the council recognise that investors are not the only target audience of an integrated report. "Given the nature of the responses, research will be undertaken on the commonality and differences between the information needs of investors ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... in supranationals, there's an extra return there with an equivalent risk to many below risk governments, so it fits the nature of being a low risk defensive government-like bonds Q: I spoke with Bill Hartnett at LGS earlier this week about the mandate ...

ASIC renews call for better remuneration disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... review, ASIC identified four areas of best practice where disclosures could be improved - focus are the board's policy on the nature and amount of remuneration of the key management personnel, the non-financial performance conditions in short-term incentive ...

ASX50 companies slow to adopt integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... recognise that [integrated reporting]is the next step along managing risk. A number of them have business models - by the nature of the industry - that recognise the importance of environmental and social factors. Mining companies in Australia have always ...

Finsia: ESG consistent with superannuation fiduciary duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... by step process for superannuation funds on how to implement ESG principles into their investment processes. "The very nature of superannuation investment is long term," said Russell Thomas, Finsia CEO and managing director. "Superannuation funds are ...

KPMG: companies should review anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... Act of 1995 says that a facilitation payment defence can be accepted if "[t]he value of the benefit must be of a minor nature; it is paid to a foreign official for the sole or predominant purpose of expediting a routine government action; and it is documented ...

CSIRO: engagement increases wind farm development approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... Landscape Guardian groups. Community members publicly supporting their local wind farm were motivated by the 'climate friendly' nature of wind farms, as opposed to that generated from fossil fuels. They appreciated regional development, increased local ...