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Aust/NZ investors committed to ESG in alt investments: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... social and governance considerations. It really is a project by project analysis. Infrastructure assets are often, by their nature, public assets. Each of those elements feed into the overall risk matrix, so social issues are very important. Negative ...

VFMC to divest from tobacco holdings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... manufacturers in making its decision, and also pointed to "the health effects of smoking and the relatively discrete and contained nature of the issue." VFMC's clients include Emergency Services and State Super (ESSSuper), the Transport Accident Commission ...

Carnegie Wave Energy launches Perth Wave Energy Project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... financial officer. 'It follows on from the commissioning of the Perth Wave Energy Project and is representative of the maturing nature of the CETO technology. It now gives Carnegie the certainty of capital and cash flows to build this important commercial ...

RIAA panel discusses tackling ESG duties, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... partnership role to create projects of a size and scale that they can be considered by superannuation funds which, by the nature of their size, can't afford to consider investments that are too small, Dow said "In that partnership role, we're very focused ...

Mutuals, co-ops have turnover of $104 billion: BCCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... sustainable pricing at the farm gate and more competition in the supply chain." The perception of the "under the radar" nature of the mutuals sector was reinforced by a survey of 30% CEOs in the sector, the Australian Co-operative and Mutual Business ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... have either made a commitment to be fossil fuel free in their lending, or who don't lend to fossil fuel projects by the nature of their business model," he said. In March of this year, Teachers Mutual Bank released a statement clarifying that their sustainability ...

Lonsec: responsible investment equity funds outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Sweeney told The Sustainability Report. "A lot of the ASX has had a resources component for a while, and these funds by their nature tend to be either excluding resources or significantly underweight resources. That segment has struggled the last two ...

NY's EIC on residential, commercial property energy upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Investment) ratio greater than one and not be leveraged above an LTV of 80 among other standards," he said. "Also, the nature of the property tax collection system and process in New York State - and other states with some variations - and legal framework ...

IIRC considers assurance of Integrated Reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... African Institute of Directors (IoD) and the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA). The papers consider "the nature of assurance and how different mechanisms contribute to credibility and trust; methodology issues dealing with, for example ...

ARENA fund Laing O'Rourke redeployable solar hybrid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... of the barriers to usage of solar power on short- and medium-term projects such as mining operations is the "permanent nature of fixed framed solar installations," ARENA said. "The plant will consist of transport-friendly container-sized modules, including ...