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Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... investing requires a financial trade-off. As the prevalence of sustainable practices has risen, and investment in related technology matures, organisations have begun to note brand and employee benefits, as well as energy, waste and cost reductions ...

Cement companies need to "more than double" emissions reductions: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... just need to invest properly in finding it." The report notes that carbon capture and storage (CCS) "is an important technology for creating low-carbon cement yet CCS projects are still largely at pilot stage in the sector," with Heidelberg demonstrating ...

Exploring the risks, impacts of future of work on investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... look at the percentage of people in the gig economy, they're avoiding the main economy. It's one of the outputs of technology. The gig economy, because it's part of the informal economy, they're unlikely to have superannuation. What does that mean for ...

CEFC provides $90m in financing to Mirvac for residential clean energy initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... meet up to 90% of a typical household's energy consumption, CEFC said. "The CEFC's finance will mean this clean energy technology is already included in the homes during construction, at no additional cost to the home buyer," said Ian Learmonth, CEFC ...

Evolution towards autonomous vehicles present infrastructure investment: AMP Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... telecommunications, noted Andy Jones, AMP Capital Global Listed Infrastructure portfolio manager. "A lot of the press focuses on the technology of autonomous vehicles itself, questions like,- are we physically and technologically capable of designing ...

CEFC signs agreement with Metro Finance to launch green vehicle finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... best-in-class models. "The scale of emissions reduction that can be achieved through upgrading vehicles with already available technology is staggering. National Transport Commission figures show that if Australian consumers had purchased vehicles with ...

Australia faces challenges in adapting to autonomous vehicle technology: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... Australia ranks 14 out of 20 selected countries in terms of progress and capacity to adapt autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, according to KPMG. KPMG has released the 2018 Autonomous Vehicles Readiness Index (AVRI), which is its first study to examine ...

Instreet Investment takes majority stake in Acorns Grow Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... initially with Indonesia." Acorns Grow Australia has also granted a perpetual licence to Acorns Grow Incorporated for technology it has developed, and as part of the arrangement, Acorns Grow Australia will rebrand its business over the coming months. ...

Increasing financial inclusion could yield increasing revenue to banks: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... difficult and often not profitable to serve these customers," said Jan Bellens, EY global emerging markets leader. "With technology, rapid mobile and especially smart phone applications, banks are leaving money on the table that they could capture, and ...

High to severe ESG incidents affect market capitalisation: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... "improve their portfolio exposure to incidents through a tilting strategy. The tilts, which range from +0.5% for the Technology industry to -0.2% for Consumer Goods, are based on the base weights of the FTSE Global All Cap Index."