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HESTA takes stand against thermal coal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
Industry super fund HESTA has begun restricting its investments in thermal coal, becoming the latest fund to move towards fossil fuel divestment. Under the new policy, HESTA will not make new investments in unlisted companies that derive more than 15% ...

AMP carbon screening leads to just two divestments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... guidelines are targeted at companies with a more than 20% exposure to oil sands, brown coal-burning power stations, thermal coal mining and conversion of coal to liquid fuel. It excludes coal companies such as Peabody and Coal India and oil sands producers ...

AMP Capital introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... client demand. The RIL Charter of Operation will now screen out companies that have more than a 20% exposure to mining thermal coal, exploration and development of oil sands, brown-coal (or lignite), coal-fired power generation, transportation of oil ...

UCA introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... Fund Management will cease to invest directly in companies involved the extraction, refinement and exportation of thermal coal and unconventional oil and gas. The ethical fund manager, which is associated with the Uniting Church in Australia, will join ...

Commodities boom over: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... periods, is now weaker and more cyclical." Aluminum, nickel, zinc, natural gas, oil, iron ore, hard coking coal and thermal coal are well off their highs while soft commodities like cotton and wheat have also fallen dramatically. "Deeper mines, lower-grade ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... wave of internal reforms including the move towards lower carbon emissions that would cruel demand for Australian thermal coal. The third was the current "cyclical" downturn that was likely to continue." "It's an accident they're coming all at once ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... with news it had secured a new $US4.5 billion ($A4.31 billion) credit facility from Credit Suisse and JP Morgan. Thermal coal miner New Hope was 37 cents richer at $4.55 as it said it was reviewing the pace at which it is developing new projects because ...

Alphinity backs growth in energy sector

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... growth. Andre said that Australia is well exposed to the energy growth opportunity through liquid natural gas and thermal coal, with Australia set to become the biggest LNG producer by 2020. "Australia has accounted for 70% of all LNG capacity sanctioned ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... Norman was down two cents, or 1.03 per cent to $1.93. In news on Tuesday, coal miner New Hope said negotiations for thermal coal prices in Japan could affect its earnings as it reported a 75 per cent slump in first half profit. New Hope's shares lost ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... its annual general meeting on the Gold Coast, and Queensland Premier Anna Bligh opens Australia's newest open cut thermal coal mine, the Rio Tinto Coal Australia managed Clermont Mine. On Thursday, the Australian share market closed higher as demand ...