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Australian companies still lag on anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... needs is tougher enforcement. If you look at the US, I think it's their enforcement record over the years that has forced people to sit up and take this seriously." Gill was a member of the B20 working group on anti-corruption. The B20 is making a series ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... divestment from fossil fuels, he said. "We thought about the impact we could have through financial services and getting people to divest from fossil fuels and support renewables," he said. "The fact is that there was nobody offering fossil fuel free ...

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Qld to fund the purchase of crisis accommodation; and to Central Coast ARAFMI in NSW to support mental health carers and people living with mental illness. SEFA has allocated "over AU$500,000" to each of the three projects, said Ben Gales, SEFA CEO. ...

SuperMIND calculates costs of mental illness, suicide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... insurers have identified is that earlier they can be involved in someone's absence from work in terms of spending money to get people into the right rehabilitative programs and speaking with the right people, they can potentially limit the future cost ...

Advisory Board's bold strategy to increase impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... superannuation funds have met the requirements of the SIS Act, they can also consider impact. Now that is something that people in the ESG and sustainability space would regard as common sense, but it's not accepted culturally in the industry. For them ...

SMF stepping up advocacy for environmental upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... chicken and egg equation. The number one critical success factor is a bigger market. You've got to get a bigger pond for people to swim in, particularly to attract the big institutional investors. The challenge will be in aggregating some of the smaller ...

NAB, Good Shepherd Microfinance launch national campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney The campaign, which features a 30-second television commercial as part of the strategy, is aimed at people experiencing financial exclusion, which Good Shepherd Microfinance notes are often locked out of mainstream banking. ...

Sustainalytics hires Cheryl Gustitus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... and worked for nearly a decade at Institutional Shareholder Services. "The high quality of Sustainalytics' products and people runs deep," said Gustitus. "With the increasing integration of ESG factors into mainstream investment decision-making and Sustainalytics' ...

DJSI 2014 review names ASX companies industry leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... efforts of our 36,000 employees who are working every day to achieve our vision to help our customers, communities and people prosper and grow." S&P Dow Jones and RobecoSAM scored Westpac with a 93% in the 2014 review, their highest ever score, Westpac ...

NY's EIC on residential, commercial property energy upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Energize NY Residential started in one community as a pilot in late 2010 and has spread to 14 municipalities and 250,000 people since then, said Thomas Bregman, director of EIC member services and director of Energize NY Residential. "In that time we ...