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University secures $450 million sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Macquarie University has inked a $450 million sustainability linked loan (SLL) as part of a refinancing deal that will see interest rate savings invested in scholarships for disadvantaged students. Macquarie has refinanced its bank facilities and worked ...

Offshore windfarms offer co-benefits

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... Investing in offshore wind farms offer biodiversity and economic co-benefits, according to new research led by Aberystwyth University academics. Research published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science found that offshore wind farms in the UK inadvertently ...

Disability advocate heads up sustainability at State Street

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainability and impact following the retirement of Richard Lacaille. Having held several teaching positions at Brandeis University and the University of Minnesota Donohue, Donohue most notably led investor behaviour research in the State Street's ...

Cleaning up diversity-washing boosts business performance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... performance tools to measure the business case for DEI objectives. The software was developed in partnership with the University of South Australia's Centre for Workplace Excellence, and the Tech For Good Group. Earlier in the year OMFIF's Gender ...

Chinese listed companies that invest in ESG show higher quality financial reporting: Study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... ESG-related projects show high quality financial reporting and accountability, according to a new study from Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers. CDU Professor of Accounting Indra Abeysekera and PhD candidate Mengqian Wu analysed the reporting ...

Amid economic uncertainty, "overlooked" co-ops and mutuals thrive

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... surveys show most Australians are still largely unaware of the business model - probably due to under-representation in university courses, Morrison said. She says this gap in education is "a missed opportunity to enlist the assistance of co-ops and ...

Climate change most pressing issue for APAC C-Suite: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... decarbonise. That means that 40% isn't available, but what's emerging is a rich ecosystem of start-ups and scale-ups, there's university research that's being commercialised that will provide new technologies and will continue to accelerate the cost ...

Aussie start up secures Japanese investor for seaweed production

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... Australian businesses to attain a FutureFeed licence to commercially grow Asparagopsis and works in partnership with the University of Western Australia and Deakin University. The company services large-scale beef and dairy producers in Victoria, and ...

Australian wellbeing hits record low

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... people and low-income Australians, as well as those without secure work, are worse affected. Australian Unity and Deakin University released the Wellbeing Index 2022 Report, which measured the subjective wellbeing of over 2000 Australian adults across ...

Investing in First Nations People

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... scale Indigenous business, Professor Peter Yu, vice president of the First Nations portfolio at the Australian National University and Yawuru man from Broome in the Kimberley region in Northwest Australia. "We operate under an economic apartheid in this ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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