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SVA provides $800,000 financing to Indigenous company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... leadership and efficiency gains. We've been paying what pops up and what we know we have to pay, and we will now work with people who are versed in financial management, and are versed in things we're not. It will make us money, not just save us money ...

University of Sydney issues second impact investing report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... there is no legal impediment for an entity to look at impact investment - which is often the first reaction you have from people when you present them with an opportunity - they legally can't look at impact investing. The conclusions of the report are ...

Norton Rose Fulbright: trustees must consider climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... the carbon divestment movement), might pose to investment portfolios. "It comes down to, quite simply, finding the right people who have access to quality information and who bring independent and questioning minds to the decisions before them," El Hassan ...

New Forests releases 2013 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... our stakeholder chain, from clients through to property managers and companies," she said. "We are fortunate to work with people who know quite a bit about sustainability and have their own goals and objectives, and we are communicating about that and ...

CFSGAM reports on responsible investment, stewardship

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... reporting is "the most important indicator of effective equity investor stewardship," according to more than a third of people who attended the recent Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) Responsible Investment (RI) and Stewardship Forum ...

Investors say non-financials matter in investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... for sue to communicate with corporate clients," he said. "We will be saying, we've heard an awful lot in Australia about people who are pushing back against integrated reporting and saying that disclosures are strong enough here. What we're going to ...

PRI moving ahead with governance review, disclosure regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... the disclosure requirements are part of the trajectory of responsible investment. "Responsible investment for a lot of p[people is still relatively new," Reynolds said. "The reporting requirements are a bit of a journey, and we're at the point where ...

SVA suggests reform for social enterprise capital funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... responsible investments and investments that have positive social outcomes and deliberate social underpinnings," he said. "People like ourselves are financial intermediaries in this space. We are able to identify and get a transaction to meet that need ...

ESG integration into quantitative investment management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... integrating ESG factors into a quantitative portfolio is that it tends to increase volatility, a general observation from people that spoke with The Sustainability Report for this article. "Over the short term, there is going to be volatility with any ...

Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... developed the SMA to meet existing client demand as well as meet wider demand for fossil-fuel free investments, Edkins said. "People are becoming more engaged with the idea of divesting from fossil fuels, particularly with the work of not for profits ...