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Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Concomitant with institutional investors developing their processes for evaluating and overseeing potential impact investments and fund managers in that sphere and working on appropriate benchmarks for measuring financial, social and environmental impacts ...

Charter Hall publishes first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Diversified property group Charter Hall has reported establishing a corporate responsibility and sustainability (CR&S) working group and increased embedding of environmental, social and governance issues in their businesses objectives in its first sustainability ...

Duncan Paterson steps down as RIAA board chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... accomplishments. "RIAA has been a powerhouse, I think," he said. "Some of the key initiatives over time have been the RIAA benchmark reporsts, the RIAA certification program for SRI funds and providers, which I think has played a strong catalytic role ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
CPA Australia has published a guide designed to accountants' capacity to provide assurance on sustainability reports for small and medium-sized entities (SMEs). Amir Ghandar The report, A Guide for Assurance on SME Sustainability Reports, is a practitioners' ...

MSCI: Asia Pacific, EU green building market show potential

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Globally, the green building market has more growth potential in the Asia-Pacific and Europe than in North America, according to research from MSCI. In the latest MSCI ESG IVA Industry Report: Real Estate, MSCI benchmarks 70 of the largest real estate ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... There is a second component - the operational model - deals with water flows internal to an operation and can be used to benchmark water efficiency. It provides consistency around what we define as recycling and reuse. That is more useful for internal ...

Omega: governance measurements reduce bond portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... fund returns, whi9ch have po0sted a 10.4% annual return, above the 9.4% annual return of the J.P. Morgan Global Bond benchmark. "We were definitely thinking that the measure would lead to reduced volatility, just conceptually, because those countries ...

New Forests issues second sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... Forest Fund, which has invested 90% of its AU$490m of committed capital within 18 months of inception and generated above-benchmark returns. The fund did not specify the rate of return or the benchmark. New Forests also reported the first close of the ...

Australian property continues to lead GRESB performers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... implementing sustainability strategies into their portfolios, according to the third Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). The 42 listed and private company and fund respondents from Australia and New Zealand were given the rank of "Green ...

PRI commitment spurs high-level action by Neuberger Berman

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... noted that for the 10 years to the end of March 2012, 98% of Neuberger Berman's equity strategies outperformed their benchmark. Thus far no Australian client has asked a Neuberger Berman team to explicitly manage a mandate to ESG factors, but an increasing ...