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Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... "intended for small scale, non-accredited investors and can only be issued by a non-profit organization", according to Canada's Centre for Social Innovation. Canadian social enterprises are currently using community bonds, and much in the way that New ...

Push continues for Australia to adopt mining payment regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Canada has gone one step closer to establishing a payment disclosure standard for its listed mining companies, with civil society groups in Australia increasing the focus on seeing a similar regime introduced here. Last week, a multi-stakeholder Resource ...

Willingness to pay affects BlackRock sovereign debt scores

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Widodo in next year's presidential election. Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Taiwan, Australia, Canada and New Zealand were the in the top 10 quintile for performance against sovereign risk, according to BlackRock. India, Hungary ...

Publish What You Pay to take case to new government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... and Europe have introduced the kinds of legislation we wish to see in Australia when it comes to payment disclosure, and Canada has announced that they will bring in payments disclosure." Earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favour of ...

GNDI comments on proposed Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Governance (IBGC), the European Confederation of Directors Associations (ecoDa), the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) in Canada, the Institute of Directors in New Zealand (IoDNZ), the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (IoDSA), the Institute ...

Corporate governance guidelines on agenda ahead of AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... always high. The other interesting thing is that if you look at what happens in other countries - particularly the UK, Canada and the US, the investors in the bidding company of an M&A do get a say. Currently, investors in the bidding company in Australia ...

CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... historically underutilised in Australia, although it says in the study that collaborative approaches have worked in Ontario Canada, California and in Queensland. The overseas experience cited in the paper builds the CEFC's case that demand management ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Paragraph 47: international perspectives one year on, features analysis from 49 sustainability reporting experts in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, South Africa, UAE and the UK who looked at the impact of paragraph 47 of the United Nation's outcome document ...

Publish What You Pay renews call for mandatory disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... brings the EU in line with the US Dodd-Frank Act section 1504, which demands similar disclosures. Meanwhile, this week Canada announced that it will establish new mandatory reporting standards for Canadian extractive companies and Switzerland said it ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... return that Australia can use as a basis for its own measurements, including the Centre for Impact Investing at MaRS in Canada, GIIN, the Centre of Excellence established by the UK Cabinet Office, the White House Office for Social Innovation and Civic ...