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Carbon schemes full of hot air

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... support of the fastest growing consumers of energy such as China and India, both of which have not signed up to the Kyoto Protocol. For countries such as China and India to fully back a global emissions scheme, the debate should focus on the practical ...

Barclays emits carbon trading ETN

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... greenhouse gas trading plans. The index comprises of two plans, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. Philippe El-Asmar, Barclays Capital head of solution sales, Americas, said the global carbon ...

Life settlements open to Aussie investors

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... it has attracted billions of dollars of investment from around the world." The Queensland based firm has developed a protocol to enter the $160 billion US life settlements market. The firm believes that life settlements present an alternative investment ...

Zurich extends political risk insurance to EMs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... government actions that might prevent an investor from receiving benefits associated with trading emission credits. The Kyoto Protocol made provisions for the eligibility of certain projects based on the level of greenhouse gases reduced. The protocol ...

ING A rejects munitions claims

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
ING Australia has hit back at claims that it invests in companies that manufacture cluster munitions, stating it applied strict standards that prevented investments in such practices and that it is already a signatory of the Equator Principles. Last ...

Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
The 2020 Summit final report has good news for infrastructure investors looking for directional certainty. The 399 page report lists three big ideas to help Australian investors build new infrastructure that should influence government policy around ...

IFM adopts UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), bringing the FUM weight to almost $400 billion for organisations that have now signed the protocols. The UN PRI includes a set of "aspirational" ...

Macq joins Charles River FIX network

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... Cameron Field, managing director of Charles River Development Asia Pacific. The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is an electronic communications protocol developed for international real-time exchange of information related to the securities ...

Asgard automates data feeds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... of financial planners using VisiPlan. Created by Coin and VisiPlan, External Platform Interface (EPI) standards are a protocol for information transfer from platforms to front-end software, removing the need for data to be input multiple times. The standards ...

Lehman Bros wins Japanese trading approval

... certified as being equivalent to one ton of CO2 under the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism defined by the Kyoto Protocol.