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Teachers Mutual Bank's certified responsible products hit $1.17 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... applicant were certified. - Excludes lending to certain sectors, because customers, internal policies, communities and/or social norms say no go - Protects and/or mitigates the negative impact of the activities to which it lends (e.g. social, environmental) ...

Commonwealth Bank provides sustainability-linked finance to Wesfarmers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Commonwealth Bank and Wesfarmers have signed a $400 million three-year bilateral sustainability-linked loan which will link social and environmental outcomes to the cost of finance. Andrew Hinchliff, CBA group executive for institutional banking and ...

Praemium enhances ESG tools with SMA, research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
Platform provider Praemium has "significantly enhanced" its approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) by adding the Australian Ethical Australian Shares Portfolio to the Praemium SMA and providing ESG research from Sustainalytics. Damian ...

KPMG Australia acquires Action Sustainability Asia Pacific

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
KPMG Australia has acquired Action Sustainability Asia Pacific, a boutique consultancy specialising specialises in social and environmental sustainability advisory services. Staff of Action Sustainability Asia Pacific The boutique consultancy is a leader ...

Australians accept climate science, but don't link to ethical super: Australian Ethical

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Australians in the first week of February 2020. According to the report, 71% of respondents would like more information about the social, environmental or ethical impacts of how their money is invested by super funds and 70% think super funds have a ...

PGIM charts rise of corporate "profit with purpose" mindset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Companies are increasingly adopting a "profit with purpose" mindset and investors should be aware of relevant environmental, social and governance (ESG) information as part of their investment process, according to global fund manager PGIM. Taimur Hyat ...

Torrens University launches open course on social enterprise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
Torrens University has launched a free, five-week online open course for those interested in launching or growing social enterprises. Melanie Tran, social entrepreneur, course facilitator Voices of Social Change will commence on 16 March 2020. Torrens ...

Australian Ethical to cut administration fees, enhance customer experience

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... engagement point of view, we've got approaching 50,000 members now in the business, but even more than that, there are 130,000 social media followers in the business," McMurdo said. "They're actively interested in what the company is doing, how we're ...

J.P. Morgan Asset Management developing ESG scoring framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
J. P. Morgan Asset Management is developing a proprietary environmental, social and governance (ESG) scoring framework as part of a range of initiatives to enhance its investment stewardship process. Jennifer Wu, Global head of sustainable investing ...

Companies have responsibility to meld profit and purpose: IBM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... citizenship manager at IBM Australia. "There is an upwards trajectory of business understanding how critical corporate social responsibility is," Moffat said. "We're up to about 75% in Australia, and I think it's a promising trend." The IBM research ...