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NGS Super to launch stand-along SRI fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... to be nuanced and we will put it in simple terms - we have a sustainability position, we have a responsible investment policy that we have put up on our website, and that responsible investment policy has cascaded to the investment manager level down ...

Australian/NZ property continue dominance in GRESB survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... a total GRESB score on a scale of 1 to 100. The total GRESB score is also divided into two dimensions - management and policy and implementation and measurement. GRESB ranks organisations in four categories - green starter, green talk, green walk and ...

HSBC calls for policies to support low-carbon financing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Smart global policy frameworks are necessary to reward financial markets to find the more than US$1 trillion per year that will be needed to decarbonise the global energy system by 2020, according to HSBC Global Research. HSBC said that in addition ...

Beyond Zero Emissions proposes model for retrofitting houses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... technologies and strategies and proposals for zero carbon buildings. Lead researcher Richard Keech said there are three policy/regulatory areas that could jump start the process towards BZE's proposed outcomes. "One is the application of something that's ...

EY: Businesses need long term carbon policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Australian businesses need the next government to implement a carbon policy that protects existing commitments and supports long-term investments that reduce carbon emissions, according to EY. The ongoing political uncertainty surrounding the current ...

Carbon price uncertainty erodes business investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon tax with a fixed price was supported by 28.8%, 3.3% of businesses didn't support any form of priced-based carbon policy and another 3.3% were unsure. But the uncertainty surrounding the future of the carbon pricing mechanism has had an impact ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... to 2014. Elisa de Wit, partner, Norton Rose Fulbright The changes proposed in Starting Emissions Trading on 1 July 2014: Policy Summary are mechanistic in nature with no untoward surprises said Elisa de Wit, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. "The key ...

J.P. Morgan rates Australian REITs reporting, management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... tenants. "The approaches we surveyed came at these ethical challenges in three ways: typically acknowledging no formal policy; referring to us to the group's GRI responses which rely on tenants observing the rule of law; or in a couple of instances referring ...

Asset owners, managers see climate change as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... weather might be having on their infrastructure investment such as ports and airports regardless of the uncertainty around policy," said Helga Birgden, head of responsible investing for Asia Pacific, Mercer. "This report shows that investors are moving ...

ACSI starts recruitment process for new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... profit to members' superannuation funds and their attitudes towards investments" and "experience in influencing public policy." ACSI represents 38 Australian superannuation funds and five international pension funds, and the organisation is a member ...