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Corp super applies ESG screen

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... Global Sustainability Fund in September by former Goldman Sachs chief executive, David Blood and former US vice president, Al Gore. Meanwhile Darren Lee, academic at the University of Queensland Business School, said using ESG factors in the investment ...

The $10 million sustainable punt

... (SRI) after raking in $9.6 million in returns for members by shorting shares that didn't pass its SRI screen. Long before Al Gore came to the scene, LGSS has been championing SRI initiatives and started what it called an "SRI overlay" over all its Australian ...

Comm Hotel property fund bags sustainability award

... the Generation Global Sustainability fund, which is co-managed by Nobel Peace prize winner and former US vice president Al Gore. Michelle Baltazar

Generation fund gets three-stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
... State (CFS). It is managed by US-based Generation Investment Management, which is co-founded by former US vice president Al Gore and former chief executive of Goldman Sach's asset management David Blood. "Investors should be aware that the Australian ...

Green fund for the mainstream

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
Former US vice president Al Gore made a flying visit to Australia to officially launch the Generation Global Sustainability fund, a new product that suits investors who want to invest in a green fund with a slightly different twist. The underlying manager ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
... Australian Financial Markets Report and Invest Australia's annual financial services Benchmark Report. Former US vice president Al Gore and former NSW Premier Bob Carr speak in Sydney today at the investment market launch. The Australian sharemarket ...

Sustainable stock exchange set for opening

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
... on the Newcastle-based National Stock Exchange (NSX), with high profile green campaigner and former US Vice President Al Gore to give an address at the opening. The FEX Sustainability and Cleantech Investment Market (FEX-SIM) will open on 14 September ...

Blood and Gore fund sustainable

... in Generation Investment Management (GIM), co-founded by ex-Goldman Sachs CEO David Blood and former US vice president Al Gore. Colonial First State (CFS) scored a coup when it signed an exclusive retail distribution agreement with GIM, a fund manager ...

Sustainable investing eclipses SRI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... David Blood, partner at Generation Investment Management, the investment house that includes former US vice president Al Gore, said this early naivety was actually not very productive. Instead, Blood told McKinsey & Co, "Sustainability investing is the ...

LGSS reaps $6m from SRI

... call an SRI overlay." That way the managers can't say that the SRI directive prevented them from meeting their benchmark. Al Gore's scare-your-pants-off environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth is five years too late compared to LGSS which implemented ...