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Foresters launches Social Investment Australia lending fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... redemption as well as an income distribution over the term of the loan." SIA's average management fee runs around 1.8% of the total fund, Wheeler said. "The income distribution is varied and is dependent on the borrower rate," she said. "If we set the ...

CDP: water a substantial risk to ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... stronger and more rigorous than the oversight of companies in other, less water stressed nations around the world." The total percentage of respondents from the ASX100 was 41%, lower than the response rate from the Global 500 companies, with a 61% response ...

EUAs finance $4.9m in Melbourne environmental retrofits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... Street, Kings Business Park, and 123 Queen Street - as case studies to continue to educate potential The retrofits have a total value of AU$4.9m, and include, variously, installation of a trigeneration system, high efficiency chillers, cooling towers ...

ACSI may name companies with poor sustainability disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... just one more than reported in the 2011 study. Of those 46, 38 companies were in the ASX100 and 8 from the ASX200 ex.100. A total of 38 companies structure their sustainability reporting to the GRI guidelines, a decrease of 2 from last year's 40 companies. ...

AMP Capital fund buys stake in Indian clean energy company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... has benefited from a favourable regulatory environment, Seth said. "Since 2002, renewable grid capacity as a percentage of total capacity has increased by almost four times," he said. "India has over 21 gigawatts (GW) of grid connected renewable energy ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... research isn't there. Some of the research on emerging countries isn't that good." Currently, green bonds make up 5.1% of the total mandate, with Omega expected to increase the allocation as new issuance comes on line. Of that, 2.04% comes from the Asian ...

Report: US$174bn global market for climate-themed bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... originates in Europe, with 17% from the US and Russia, Canada and China with 3% each. The UK alone had 23% of the global total. "The report does two things it identifies what a universe of climate themed bonds would look like," said Sean Kidney, chair ...

Australian Ethical Investments faces EGM board spill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... manager in Australia is experiencing net outflows; our dividends have remained relatively stable over the past four years; our total shareholder return (share price plus dividends) has been competitive relative to our peers." See Also: James Thier retires ...

Low Carbon Australia finances $1.6m Ipswich building upgrade

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... annual greenhouse gas reductions of 718 tonnes. Low Carbon Australia helped us with finance for about 90 per cent of the total project cost," said Justin Goddard, Trident Corporation's managing director. "What we now have, is a building that has improved ...

Australia in top ten for GRI sustainability reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... (GRI) framework, according to a statistical analysis of the GRI Sustainability Disclosure database. Australia had 4% of the total number of reports registered with GRI's database in 2011, making it number eight on the top ten list. The United States ...