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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 ...

GRI, Fundacion ONCE launch disability reporting guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Disability (CSR+D), have launched a guide for organisations to use in communicating commitments relating to inclusion of people with disabilities. Disability in Sustainability Reporting is designed to "enhance organisational understanding of the value ...

NAB launches Impact Investment Grant Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... investment and the grants program in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney over the past month, and more than 400 people government, the not-for-profit sector and social enterprises attended the sessions, NAB said. The impact investing market ...

Ethical Advisers' Co-operative AUM reach nearly $1 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... growing in importance, Edkins said. "One of the dominating areas is superannuation, because it's becoming a growing part of people's assets - it's first or second highest value asset they have," she said. "That's one area where clients want to be reflecting ...

Future Super founders to launch Future Home Loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The founders of Future Super will branch out into the home loans space by launching a service encouraging people to take up or switch their home loans to banks that do not finance the expansion of the fossil fuel sector. Future Home Loans will launch ...

Assessing likely process, impacts of first ERF auction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... three new ERF methodologies and there are 17 in the pipeline. The expectation is that the methodologies will roll out and people will start looking at project development based on those methodologies. For future methodologies the idea is that the department ...