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LUCRF Community Partnership Trust opens in South Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... by LUCRF Fund as a way of engaging with the communities in which the AU$2.5 billion fund's memberships lived. The CPT's money is drawn from the fund's marketing budget, and is in line with the fund's trade-union roots, said Greg Sword, LUCRF CEO. LUCRF ...

GHG efficiency projects increase cities' finances and health

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... that. There is not a city in the world that should not be converting its old, inefficient lights to LEDs. It delivers more money to the city and reduces GHG emissions. I think there are other projects as well that fall into that category. Waste ranks ...

Westpac, CBA, Benevolent Society launch social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... tranches - an AU$7.5 million capital guaranteed component with return based on agreed performance outcomes reflecting the money saved by the New South Wales government b keeping families together. The junior tranche of AU$2.5 million will be partially ...

End of Financial Year time for tax, ethical investment check

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
The end of the financial year is an opportunity for investors to consider how their superannuation money is being invested from both a tax and an ethics perspective, according to Australian Ethical. In a recent communication, the ethical superannuation ...

Publish What You Pay renews call for mandatory disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... quite pertinent, particularly to the opposition, is that investors support this. Investors understand that corruption costs money and it's a hindrance to investment in mining." See Also: EITI conference advocates for moving beyond transparency

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... trader or a short-term investor," McKibben said. "At the most basic level, it makes no sense to invest one's retirement money in companies that won't guarantee that there's an earth worth retiring on. The message is starting to get across that a lot ...

Pollinate Energy brings solar lighting to urban slums

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... revolutionary because we can scale so much faster - we can see where the pollinators are working in real time, where the money goes, because it's all reported and comes straight through to us. It's gotten rid of the paperwork, which means we can work ...

Budget to cut ARENA funding, bring forward money to CTIP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Treasurer Wayne Swan's budget proposal will postpone funding amounting to AU$370 million until 2020, and the process to put that money back into ARENA was not specified. This proposal comes a year after the government promised to leave ARENA's funding ...

SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... accommodation service for people coming to Cairns for health services, as well as crisis accommodation for the homeless. The money has gone towards the purchase and refurbishment of the site. SEFA structured the arrangement with Three Sistas as a "longer ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Yates, CEFC CEO. CEFC CEO Oliver Yates "When I took the role, I set a timeframe very clearly that if we were to be deploying money by 1 July, we had to be fully staffed by early April to consider contracts and then fund them from 1 July," Yates told ...