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Tax transparency an ESG consideration for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Tax transparency is an issue for investor consideration as part of an overall environmental, social and governance (ESG) approaches, but the extent to which tax transparency is material depends on investment beliefs and investment approaches. Investors ...

Companies advised to stress test climate change scenarios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
This week, representatives from Australia and more than 150 nations gathered in New York to sign off on the Paris Agreement. Even as governments around the world face calls to set policies and legislation to fulfil their commitments, there is also new ...

New Community Sector Banking CEO outlines bank's value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
The new CEO of Community Sector Bank has said that he is focusing on learning how the bank's products and services to its not-for-profit organisation clients can be leveraged to bring added value to the sector. Andrew Cairns, CEO, Community Sector Banking ...

Corporates implementing social return on investment frameworks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Corporate, public and not-for-profit organisations in Australia are increasingly setting frameworks to measure social return on investment (SROI) of their business activities and integrating those metrics and analysis into their business strategies. ...

New Forests launches ESG investment performance framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
New Forests, a private sustainable real assets investment manager, has implemented a new investment performance framework that will focus on productivity, ecosystem services, land use planning, shared prosperity, risk management, and governance. David ...

MSCI launch MSCI ACWI Sustainable Impact Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
MSCI have launched the MSCI ACWI Sustainable Impact Index and MSCI ESG Sustainable Impact Metrics, which provide measurements of companies whose products and services aimed at addressing social and environmental challenges. Linda-Eling Lee executive ...

Investors call for affordable housing bonds, aggregating body

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Institutional investors have expressed support for a government-established intermediary aggregators to issue bonds to finance large scale affordable housing projects. Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing, Social Ventures Australia ...

Community Sector Banking hires new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Community Sector Banking has hired Andrew Cairns as its new CEO. Cairns comes to Community Sector Banking from the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Group, where he worked for more than 15 years in roles including head - customer led connections, responsible ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
There is a need to develop metrics to measure social impacts of impact investment in sectors such as affordable and social housing, healthcare, homelessness and vulnerable children and young adults among others, according to investment and governance ...

Cities provide essential collaboration: C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
Big cities' governments around the world are investing and collaborating on climate change related issues as a way of making their cities more attractive places for people to live, according to Mark Watts, executive director, C40 Cities Climate Leadership ...