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Foresters Community Finance funding for early stage ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... to fit the lending profile of social enterprises in their first one to three years of operation, according to Belinda Drew, CEO Foresters Community Finance. The fund was developed after Foresters set up its Social Enterprise Development and Investment ...

GRI, UN Global Compact, WBSCD to collaborate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... consistency that is required to make information useful and credible to markets and society," said Ernst Ligteringen, GRI's CEO, at the UNGC's triennial Leaders' Summit in New York late last week. "Thousands of companies have applied the GRI Guidelines ...

ACSI: Average fixed CEO pay declined in 2012

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
Average CEO fixed pay in the top 100 companies fell for only the second time in 11 years, but average CEO pay is still 67 times more than the average Australian salary, according to new research from the Australian Council of Super Investors (ACSI). ...

Nippon Gas buys stake in COzero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Japan's Nippon Gas has bought a 16% stake in COzero, the energy management solutions provider has announced. Nick Armstrong, CEO COzero The investment will give Nippon Gas access to COzero's energy solutions, including EnergyLink, a newly developed energy ...

Companies lag on implementing UN Global Compact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... labour, the environment and anti-corruption. While 65% of responding signatories are "committing to sustainability at the CEO level," only 35% are training managers in integrating sustainability into strategy and operations. This plays out in other areas ...

Mariner Investment Group selects MSCI ESG Research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... about where particular fixed income and long-short investments fall on an ESG ratings scale," said Bracebridge Young, Jr., CEO of Mariner Group. "In the past, you could consider PRI principles, but there was opacity as to how those principles actually ...

YES BANK signs on to Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... extremely pleased to have become active members and signatories to the Natural Capital Declaration," said Rana Kapoor, MD and CEO, YES BANK. "Natural capital considerations should be at the epicentre of all business and financial decisions. At YES BANK ...

GNDI comments on proposed Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... entity manages those risks and how they determine their success in managing those risks," said John Colvin, chair of GNDI and CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). "However, we have significant concerns that should Integrated Reporting ...

Corporates should look beyond CSR to creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... There are business benefits to integrating social programs into business strategy beyond enhanced reputation, according to the CEO of Opportunity International Australia. Robert Dunn, CEO, Opportunity International Australia Integrating social programs ...

Foresters Community Finance starts social entrepreneur fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... of the changing social landscape, with both social enterprise and social entrepreneurship on the rise, said Belinda Drew, CEO Foresters Community Finance. "We are seeing more and more social enterprises emerge which is great news for Australia's social ...