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Instos gain carbon footprint data

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
Super funds can compare the carbon footprint of fund managers along with traditional risk factors after one custodian added emission statistics to its service suite. Northern Trust said the enhancement would feature on Northern Trust's Investment Risk ...

Finance firms power down to power up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... leadership in proactively making technology decisions" that enable them to cut energy costs and reduce their carbon footprint. "Financial services companies understand that the initial cost of servers is quite cheap but the cost of power to run that ...

IT dept holds key to cost cutting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... environment, without the need to run multiple platforms and servers, thus reducing our energy consumption and overall carbon footprint."

Instos win $5.5m in sustainable grants

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... generate electricity for the building and also put electricity back into the grid. "It means we're reducing our carbon footprint and hopefully running our buildings efficiently," he said.

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... initial $150 million mandate to invest in stocks that generate the same returns as the market but with half the carbon footprint. The formula is simple. Vanguard Investments will manage a portfolio made up of 700 companies that collectively produce less ...

S&P launches carbon index

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... closely tracks the S&P 500 and is rebalanced every quarter whereby stocks in the S&P 500 are ranked by their carbon footprint. The top 100 stocks with the highest carbon footprint, that won't affect the sector weightings of the S&P 500 by more than 50 ...

ASX firms more carbon clear

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... VicSuper's carbon report card found the number of Australian listed companies publicly and adequately detailing their carbon footprint rose five per cent to 30 per cent in a year. The VicSuper Carbon Count 2008 found the quality of carbon reporting had ...

Mercer clients gain carbon tool

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Mercer is teaming up with environmental research firm, Trucost Plc to allow its clients to measure the 'carbon footprint' of their underlying portfolios. The tool is available through the Mercer's Style Research Portfolio Analyser (SRPA) that includes ...

NECU videos go high tech

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... cent savings across its contact centre operations. At the same time, TANDBERG will help cut the organisation's carbon footprint through unnecessary travel time for employees," TANDBERG said in a statement. Currently, 20 per cent of NECU's contact centre ...

ETS or carbon tax, still same problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... economic issue that presents investment opportunities. "As a private person you may not like [having to reduce your carbon footprint] but from an investors perspective you have no choice but to adjust because you will under-perform funds that do make ...