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Sustainable investing eclipses SRI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... Instead, Blood told McKinsey & Co, "Sustainability investing is the explicit recognition that social, economic, environmental and ethical factors directly affect business strategy. "For example, how companies attract and retain employees, how they manage ...

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... deal in the Federal Budget, but our four-legged rural residents might just be put on notice as part of the Budget's environmental contingencies. For 18 months companies with more than $100 million turnover have suffered under a Federal Government tax ...

AMP Capital goes for retail sustainability

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... from over five years of wholesale sustainable investments, and will focus on companies that meet clear financial, environmental, social and governance criteria. Michael Anderson, director of sustainable funds, AMP Capital Investors, said Australian investors ...

Portfolio Partners offsets co2 with tree-planting program

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... economic benefits for the landowners. Under the program, CO2 Australia will establish long term (150 years) mallee environmental plantings on agricultural land. The mallee environmental plantings will be integrated into existing farming and grazing operations ...

Intangibles the new bottom line in company valuations

... the supply chain is managed, the company's relationship with the local communities and how stringent the company's environmental policies are. "We are in a new era of company evaluation where there should be a strong emphasis on both the risk premium ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... Science and Innovation saying that the $6 billion expenditure during 2004-05 had important economic, social and environmental benefits to the Australian community. Commissioner Mike Woods said that the function nurtures a highly "skilled and creative ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
In a bi-annual review of financial market stability the Reserve Bank of Australia has noted that while household mortgage arrears are increasing, they still remain at historically low levels. Indeed in excess of half of the owner occupiers analysed ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
... Howard's $10 billion water rescue plan saying that they wish to limit the buy-back of irrigation licences and limit environmental flows to the Murray-Darling basin. The Nationals also seek to limit CSIRO's role in analysing and determining water allocations. ...

Winds continue to favour private equity

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
Private equity deals look set to enjoy favourable environmental conditions for some time yet with more successful deals likely, according to van Eyk, although the sector may not be suitable to retail investors. Nigel Douglas, van Eyk investment strategist ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... inadvertently develop an oversupply of goods in particular industries. China has confirmed that it has not achieved its environmental targets which included cutting energy costs by 4 per cent and reducing the discharge of pollutants into rivers by 2 ...