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Super funds show 5.7% jump in percentage of women directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... women and 18.1% of ASX300 directors are women. Meanwhile, Industry Moves, an online database providing research on employment moves and trends in institutional and retail financial services has analysed public sector and industry funds with more than ...

GRI, Fundacion ONCE launch disability reporting guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... minority group. To a large extent these individuals are marginalized in our societies, in particular when it comes to employment," said Michael Meehan, GRI chief executive. " Disability in Sustainability Reporting is designed to empower organizations' ...

Government retains gender equity reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... that were due to commence in April. Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia Senator Eric Abetz, minister for employment, and Senator Michaelia Cash, minister assisting the prime minister for women, announced the changes to reporting guidelines ...

Westpac commits to recruiting 400 Indigenous university interns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... were sitting down and working through the Reconciliation Action Plan, our reflection was about creating more than just employment, but creating careers," said Siobhan Toohill, head of group sustainability and community at Westpac. "How do we support ...

Diversity Council Australia urges employer action in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... DCA calls the "bamboo ceiling." There is a business case for increased gender and cultural diversity and increasing employment access to people with disabilities, Annese noted. "The only thing that will make business leaders take initiatives in the area ...

KKR invests in Sundrop Farms expansion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... helping draw in private sources of funding to enable innovative projects to proceed, generating new economic activity and employment in regional areas." The CEFC commitment accelerated the project, Saumweber said. "Without the CEFC we would not have ...

CEFC looks to increase investment in bioenergy projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... purposes and the export market and our finance activities in this sector will help develop local industries, generate new employment opportunities and achieve emissions reductions." See Also: RIAA panel discusses tackling ESG duties, opportunities

Interest in green, social bonds continuing: JPMorgan Chase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Ceci pointed to the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has developed EYE Bonds, which finance education, youth and employment programs in developing countries, as one example of new issuance by a multilateral bank. "I've been travelling with the ...

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Australia. "These are big questions. Is it just to maximise wealth, or create things that society wants and needs, create employment, be bound into the fabric of society? One of the things that strongly came through from the panel isn't just what directors ...

DCA panel addresses employment of people with disabilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... research to support all of them, yet 45% of us live in poverty. We are employed at a rate 30% lower than the rate of employment for the general population." ANZ Bank introduced an accessibility action plan in 2008 and is currently midway through its ...