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Greencape Capital hires Jonathan Koh

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Equity fund manager Greencape Capital has appointed Jonathan Koh to the role of investor, responsible for stock analysis and selection. Jonathan Koh Greencape is a AU$3.97bn fund manager led by Matthew Ryland and David Pace, both ex-Merrill Lynch/BlackRock. ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... process of monitoring its ongoing impact investments to the way it monitors other assets such as infrastructure or private equity, with perhaps added attention because of the relatively fewer number of investors to the category. "We probably watch them ...

ASrIA: US$74bn in sustainable investment assets in Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... information, including Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand, but the report notes that Asian regional bond managers lag listed equity mangers in using integrated ESG approaches. In terms of Asian private markets, such as private equity, real estate and infrastructure ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $11m pilot energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... ANZ are providing the commodity trading facility to allow NovaPower to hedge its sales and therefore secure return on the equity and secure our ability to service the debt," he said. "It's quite innovative structure - typically you'd see a structure ...

Oliver Yates named CEO of Clean Energy Finance Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... has over 20 years of global experience in corporate advisory, financial structuring, project finance, debt structuring, equity raising and listings, with many years' experience in clean energy. He is formerly from Macquarie Bank, where "he was involved ...

Woolworths poker machine vote fails, but push to continue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... continue to hold strategic value, Smith said. "I think it's still a powerful tool in the armoury," he said. "Conservative equity investors, tend to favour the engagement route and that's something we're into as well, but I think it's important for a ...

PRI publishes hedge fund responsible investment paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... manager to explicitly weigh and consider fundamental factors," the paper said. "Such an approach could be suitable in an equity or credit long/short strategy. However where a strategy involves being long or short an index or sector (as opposed to an ...

Hermes Fund Managers launch quant ESG equity strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... to specific client requirements." The new ESG strategy combines the ESG Dashboard analysis with the expertise of Hermes' Equity Ownership Services (EOS), a stewardship resource that globally has more than AU$116bn in assets under advice. EOS analyses ...

CDP: increased water risk awareness, lagging board response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... change in number of companies with board-level oversight of water strategies. CDP invited 318 companies from the FTSE Global Equity Index Series (Global 500) to participate in the 2012 Global Water Report, because they operate in water-intensive sectors ...

AXA IM brings ESG equities analytic framework to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... Australia this week to launch the research. The investment manager conducted an integration pilot study based on AXA IM's UK equity team, which manages more than over GBP 10 billion of UK equity assets. AXA IM focused on six ESG criteria - management ...