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Social Ventures Australia hires Jenna Palumbo for WA role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Enterprise Fund and supports social ventures across the state working to improve education and employment outcomes for people experiencing disadvantage. Palumbo will support the current SVA venture portfolio and look to opportunities to partner with ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... the moment, until the rules, the regulations, and the mechanisms are defined, and there is a greater indication of what people may get is out of the Emissions Reduction Fund. Until those things are actually finalised, it would be very hard for anyone ...

Addis, Blackburn-Wright open impact investment firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Impact Strategist helps individual entities, but we also needed a public space to publish things and share learning and help people to find each other, so that's what we have done with Impact Investing Australia," Blackburn-Wright said. "We were also ...

Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... within communities. "Nobody sees a future with funding surety in terms of the community sector, which perhaps is turning people's minds to looking for innovative forms of funding," said Rowan Dowland, general manager of development at bankmecu. "In our ...

Westpac number one on global sustainability list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... highly on the global stage," said Gail Kelly, Westpac chief executive. "It is wonderful recognition of the work of our people to help create a sustainable future and deliver long term value for our customers, employees, shareholders and the community." ...

Good Super launches, aims for ethical impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Super. "It's a bit of a phenomenon that particularly in Baby Boomers, you actually are seeing a lot of quite conscious people who don't want to be investing their money in enterprises that result in social harm," Pearce said. Good Super has selected ...

Global banks launch voluntary Green Bond Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO). "Early on in the development of the green bonds market, there were some people who said 'you must have a Cicero opinion,' and those that felt that their considerable experience in financing green projects ...

SVA names Mark Herbertt Queensland director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Impact Fund, which has granted a loan to Ability Enterprises in Toowoomba. Ability's social goal is to create 60 jobs for people with disabilities. Lisa Siganto, previously SVA Queensland director, has become CEO of the Stronger Smarter Institute. SVA ...

APRA: 22% of superannuation fund directors women

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... responsibility of a super fund is to manage for the future the retirement savings of working Australians. When you're looking at people's retirement futures and you consider things like the fact that women outlive men, those sorts of specific issues ...

NAB, bankmecu, Stockland on Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... about the short term effect of our efforts, which translate into increased sales turnover, but a longer term return in that people are more satisfied living in our communities, whether it's the hard infrastructure and the soft infrastructure. The net ...