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New Forests launches ESG investment performance framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Investment model, is being implemented across all of the company's investment programs, and is linked to material environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues within each area. New Forests has also applied impact reporting metrics from the Impact ...

MSCI launch MSCI ACWI Sustainable Impact Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... ESG Sustainable Impact Metrics, which provide measurements of companies whose products and services aimed at addressing social and environmental challenges. Linda-Eling Lee executive director, global head of ESG research, MSCI The new framework is aligned ...

Investors call for affordable housing bonds, aggregating body

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... issue bonds to finance large scale affordable housing projects. Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing, Social Ventures Australia In January, the federal government established an Affordable Housing Working Group to investigate ways in ...

Mirvac launches social return on investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Mirvac Group has developed a framework and tool to measure social return on investment (SROI) for the developments it builds, and has calculated that its residential communities save residents in reduced health costs and reduced crime. Sarah Breavington ...

UCA Funds Management publishes annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... and provides investment management for charities, faith-based organisations and their members. "We have become the only social enterprise that is a responsible entity level fund manager," Walsh said. "That enables us to provide the same level of compliance ...

Community Sector Banking hires new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... connections, responsible for the development and implementation of the bank's "strategic direction for online banking, social media and mobile commerce," according to his LinkedIn profile. He has also held roles including CEO of Community Telco Australia ...

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 ...

GRESB launches Health and Well-being Module

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... vision is to ultimately create better places for people and communities - places that reduce environmental impacts, improve social practices and set high standards for corporate governance - in profitable ways that make good business sense and reward ...

Q&A: Madeleine Senior, Bert Rebelo, Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... Australia. Senior and Rebelo talk to The Sustainability Report about the bank's view on sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) management as a business strategy for the bank, as an asset servicing and as an asset management provider. ...

Impact Investing Australia launches inaugural Australian survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... impact investing, and even investors who are not active in impact investing indicated "they are likely to consider the social, environmental and cultural impact as a metric for investment decisions over the next five years," according to the report. ...