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Cutting our energy usage has long way to go

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... transport use nonetheless increased albeit it is still at overall low levels. Even though households bare the political brunt of water conservation efforts, they accounted for only 11 per cent of the total water consumed in Australia in 2004-05, compared ...

Water fund washes onto BT wraps

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
Liontamer's KBC Global Water Fund has been added to the BT wrap, heralding the next step of the fund's Australian footprint in the water-investment sector. Liontamer head of distribution, Simon Padley, advised that the fund has been accepted on both ...

US titans fall, Australia will rise

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
How the mighty have fallen. From Merrill Lynch to JPMorgan Chase, the world's investment banking stalwarts have all shed blood from the US sub-prime scalping - but Australian fund managers are weathering the storm. Last week, Merrill Lynch reported ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... investors. The Hang Seng Index lost 776.61, or 2.72 per cent, to 27,744.45 points. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares trod water on Thursday with little in the way of news to provide direction, despite a rebound on Wall Street overnight. The NZSX-50 benchmark ...

Liontamer lends weight to blue gold

Is water really an increasingly scarce commodity? Investment group Liontamer predicts that the shortage of fresh water in the future will drive the investment returns of listed companies that specialise in the 'blue gold' sector. Liontamer, majority ...

Sustainable audits need more structure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... said Australian corporations were concerned with the lack of reporting systems available to audit their energy, waste and water usage. The reaction prompted Jones Lang LaSalle to develop their Environmental Sustainability Platform (ESP), a web-based ...

AUI expands retail arm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has appointed Mark HortonAndrews to head of product and Cameron Farrar to business development manager as part of the company's strategy to develop its retail division. Prior to this appointment, HortonAndrews spent ...

Aurora to list buy-write income trust

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... also be geared to an expected average Loan to Value Ratio (LVR) of 50 per cent and invest in listed toll roads, airports, water utilities, gas utilities, electric utilities, ports, pipelines, and other infrastructure assets throughout the world. Hugh ...

The $10 million sustainable punt

... million in direct property, all of which have gone through an SRI review (energy efficient lighting, waste recycling for water and paper, etc.) more than six months ago. The $5-billion plus fund is one of the eight cornerstone investors of Regnan, a ...

Comm Hotel property fund bags sustainability award

... manager, Colonial First State Global Asset Management and hotel manager, Marriott International, in reducing the hotel's water, waste and energy use, as well as its social initiatives. "It is refreshing to work with a hotel owner that is focused on being ...