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Australian, NZ social enterprises top B Corp list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... an assessment of the company's impact. Three Sista's, a Queensland social enterprise that will provide accommodation to people in Cairns and Indigenous people from Cape York who travel to Cairns for health services, and Australian Ethical Investment ...

School for Social Entrepreneurs holds NDIS training

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... important that SSE offers the Accelerator Program. We need new thinking in the disability sector and we need innovation and people with the ability to carry those ideas out," said John Walsh, National Disability Insurance Agency director, in a statement. ...

Aust/NZ investors committed to ESG in alt investments: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... longer-dated than other asset classes. Different investment will have different emphasis." Billimoria said. "These are things that people aim to look at. They will look at the key risk issues, and relatively, some projects may have more focus on the ...

ASIC issues report on payday lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... framework" to be introduced into the consumer lease industry. The proposal is calling on consumer lease providers to refer people on low incomes to no-income loans, rather than sign them up to leasing contracts. "Goods rental companies usually advertise ...

Mirvac integrates sustainability in "place-making" thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... have shifted towards a greater emphasis on community growth and development, Edwards said. "We call it the great reset - people come out of the GFC and have retreated into their community, and as a result, understanding your community has gone up the ...

Increase in ASX board cultural diversity: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... cultural diversity, as is the case with all kinds of diversity, leads to better business performance. I think that some people view that as an assumption without evidence, but, in fact, it is true." Increased cultural diversity has been driven by market ...

Women on Boards tracks gender diversity gains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... "The issue is now becoming far more mainstream," she said. "It's becoming one they can't ignore, like health and safety. People have religion about women..... You can't afford to ignore this now, certainly if you're a board of an ASX200 company." The ...

Future Home Loans to broker fossil fuel free loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
The founders of Future Super have launched Future Home Loans, a mortgage broking company that will assist people in taking up or switching their home loans to banks that do not finance the expansion of the fossil fuel sector. Simon Sheikh, managing ...

Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... become more comfortable with excluding the companies, because we're convinced that a good portion of the profit depends on people who are trapped in a cycle of high-cost debt, and we'd use the term predatory to describe that activity." The fund is invested ...

Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... having any physical branches is offset in fraud incidents. But the biggest thing to us from a social perspective is that people are making decisions about taking out debt without having a cooling-off period. We strongly advocate a cooling-off period ...