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AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... analysis," Halliday said. In markets where ownership is dispersed, governance processes developed with a strong focus on building confidence among investors, ensuring accountability and transparency between shareholders and company management. AMP Capital ...

SVA CEO calls for new investment model for social change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... potential." Traill has recently written about these issues in a SVA quarterly publication Investing in social change: building an efficient capital market for social purpose. In the piece, he names several areas that represent what he considers the core ...

Local property companies continue GRESB outperformance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
Australian/New Zealand property companies continue to outperform global peers in sustainability reporting and performance, according to the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) 2014 results. Australia/NZ property companies received an ...

NY's EIC on residential, commercial property energy upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... (PACE) and property tax laws to provide "long-term market rate financing for clean energy commercial and multi-family building improvements," EIC said. EIC combines its financing programs with community outreach programs to increase market knowledge ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... sustainability of humanity." The challenge isn't finding capital for investment in social enterprises, Addarii said, but rather in building the business models that move from social granting to social investment, building the infrastructure for investment ...

Ethinvest model portfolios continue to outperform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... low fee option that gives you good exposure to income and large cap stocks," he said. "It can play important part in building a core ethical portfolio. We often complement them with other ethical funds to provide access to specialist management for people ...

CEFC, CFSGAM to establish clean energy infrastructure fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... opportunity, if you think about it. We can increase our reach by working with a manager because they have the expertise in building that capability in the market. That's really our mission." The CEFC started in July 2013 and provides financing to renewable ...

Financial System Inquiry addresses impact investment market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... white paper.... The one thing that wasn't touched on was that it would be helpful for the government to consider capacity building or support of grant funding to fledgling social enterprises at the demand level because a lot of the policy points are ...

Universe of climate-linked bonds expands to US$502.6bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
The total universe of climate-themed bonds is US$502.6 billion and the universe of labelled green bonds is US$38.8 billion, according to the Climate Bond Initiative's 2014 market report. Bridget Boulle, programme manager, Climate Bond Initiative According ...

Quantifying intangible assets to manage, drive company value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... opportunities. With the value driver tree, a sales director can engage on the issue and because they're engaging and building their own value driver trees, they readily accept their outcome." Dowse will be presenting the SIVA model in an ESG workshop ...