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Instos gain carbon footprint data

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... Analytical Services platform, which is available to its institutional and high net worth investors. "Using our integrated environmental analytics solution, trustees can make comparisons between funds and individual managers and improve communications ...

Local Govt Super upgrades property investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... air conditioning and lighting to improve the energy efficiency across all its buildings. The study of the indoor environmental quality, including air, visual and noise factors covered four buildings and found the annual financial benefit to the owner ...

VicSuper searches for CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... investment policy and strategy and implementing sustainable portfolios. VicSuper is renown for its implementation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into its investment process. The fund won a number of Association of Chartered Certified ...

Cbus adds ESG into investment contracts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
The $13 billion Construction & Building Industry Super (Cbus) is starting to include environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the fund's Investment Management Agreements (IMAs) when appointing fund managers. Trish Donohue, executive manager ...

Christian Super invests $50m in fixed income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... Australian fixed interest securities, global government bonds and global credit securities, which are all reviewed using environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. Peter Murphy, chief executive at Christian Super, said the fund's investment ...

Age of greener capitalism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... invest in companies that understood the biophysical limits of the world and have made progressive steps to reduce the environmental impact of their day-to-day operations. Forbes said that there's a lot of greenwash out there so they've set up their own ...

Perpetual signs UN PRI

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). As a signatory, Perpetual Investments must formally incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into its investment decision-making and ownership practices in a consistent and transparent ...

US finance firms announce emission cuts

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... Fargo, which this month announced plans to cut its emissions by 20 per cent in less than 10 years. As part of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program a number of local companies, including financial services firms, committed ...

Arise Chindonesia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... according Simon Long, south east Asia correspondent for The Economist. Long cautioned however that the worldwide environmental costs could be catastrophic without major reforms to deforestation management. The Energy and Environment Centre reports that ...

Where did the money go?

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... investment occurring in ethical strategies could be the result of institutional investors using all encompassing environmental, social and governance (ESG) approach. "Some of those stats would be for quite narrow ethical mandates but I think there's ...