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Property funds under green watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
Three European pension funds with more than $500 billion in assets are using their investment muscle to force property companies and fund managers to stay on top of their environmental policies, following the release of a new green property benchmark. ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...

Property associations seek carbon clarity

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... Investment industry body has called for the industry to work closer with the government to explore the impact of carbon emission laws. Adam Murchie, vice president at the Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA), said carbon emission ...

Agriculture wins pension fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
Australian superannuation funds are 18 months behind their UK counterparts which are increasingly awarding mandates to agriculture investments, said an industry expert. Charlie Blomfield, managing director of Carthona Agriculture, said increasing mandates ...

LGS wins green globe award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
Local Government Super has been awarded the 2009 Commercial Property Green Globe Award. The award follows a series of green upgrades to LGS' $500 million direct property portfolio through the implementation of its Sustainable Portfolio Program. The ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Super fund VicSuper continues to take the front step in addressing the global carbon emissions challenge when it awarded Vanguard an initial $150 million mandate to invest in stocks that generate the same returns as the market but with half the carbon ...

S&P launches carbon index

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
Standard & Poor's has launched the S&P U.S. Carbon Efficient Index to measure the performance of large cap US companies with low carbon emissions. The index closely tracks the S&P 500 and is rebalanced every quarter whereby stocks in the S&P 500 are ...

Perennial and Hyperion sign UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
Home grown boutique fund managers Perennial Investment Partners and Hyperion Asset Management have become the latest Aussie signatories of the UN PRI. According to Perennial chief executive Anthony Patterson, the fund manager had taken an interest in ...

Energy fund bucks market slump

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
The Bakers Alternate Energy Fund finished 2008 with a 0.2 per cent positive performance - yards ahead of the S&P/ASX300 Index's 42 per cent loss over the last calendar year. The Australian share market suffered massive losses of up to 41.73 per cent ...

Impax environment trust hits the market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has released Impax Environmental Markets Trust giving Australian investors exposure to a market which the firm expects will benefit from global government environmental policy. UK based Impax Asset Management holds a ...