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SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... group un a relatively economically disadvantaged area," Rickards said. "The aim of the community group is to keep retired people in the community." Myrtle Park Retirement Homes Inc. will offer retirees living in the site discounted rental rates - the ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... constructed around negative screens. Companies that are given a red rating - companies that Etinvest deems as being damaging to people or the environment - are excluded from investments. Investments are then made in companies rated yellow for doing no ...

ACSI names leaders, laggards in ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... managed because there are risks to the companies that they need to be aware of, and there's been sufficient incidences where people have been caught out. For example, given recent events, all of the consumer discretionary companies might be looking at ...

ESG risks impact transport sector earnings, share price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... the transport sector than elsewhere.... If you have a poor safety performance, it makes it that much harder to attract people to you, for example. That's one of the indirect costs, but it's hard to quantify that." Indirect costs include production disruptions ...

National Sustainability Council issues macro-theme report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... report notes that over the past 20 years, there have been large improvements in educational attainment - by 2012, 80% of people aged 20-64 had completed Year 12, a vocational or higher qualification, up from 60% in 1994 and the percentage of women with ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... number of transactions that then would be funded by the first of July but committed before then. We are seeing a lot of people make proposals to us, about potential funding opportunities. While it's early days and some people still confuse us with a ...

NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... (AODP) has been joined by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) on The Vital Few, a grassroots project that asks people to contact their superannuation fund demanding disclosure and transparency on details about climate risk and the extent of ...

RI Academy to offer Enhanced Financial Analysis course

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Essentials unit is a general overview, furthering the business case for doing ESG analysis, and then we feel a lot of the people who have undertaken the unit will take on the advanced course." The course addresses the skills necessary to identify new ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... report.... In some cases, we also saw that oil, gas and mining companies were decades ahead on, in fact. We found that a lot of people who were focused on CSR were under-resourced and driven by short-term policy compliance rather than the strategic view. ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... an industry forum that will coordinate activities to further develop the impact investing sphere in Australia. "We need people in the industry that either represent investors or who are gatekeepers or intermediaries to work in a coordinated way," Knowles ...