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Good Super appoints Andrew MacLeod as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... investing to impact on thematic, long-term questions facing Australia, including climate change, changing demographics, and social justice issues. "I was attracted to an executive role with Good Super because I wanted to be part of the vision," MacLeod ...

Northern Trust to open asset management in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... to Australia in 2015, and will look to offer equities products including those specifically tailored for environmental, social and governance (ESG) mandates. Rohan Singh, managing director, Northern Trust Australia and New Zealand Northern Trust has ...

Instreet Investment buys The Emerald Club

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
Ed. note: Revised to include comment from The Emerald Club co-founder Justin Medcalf Instreet Investment, a boutique structured product provider, has bought the Emerald Club and its ethical platform, The Emerald Wrap. Instreet did not have a presence ...

Foresters Community Finance appoint new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... the role of CEO," said Paul Keehan, Foresters chair. Foresters Community Finance and subsidiary funds management company Social Investment Australia - which is co-owned by InterFinancial Corporate Finance - has invested more than AU$16 million in property ...

The Sustainability Report's top articles of 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... corporate disclosure recommendations, ESG integration in investment strategies, green bonds, and valuation of corporate social programs. ASX includes ESG language in corporate governance guidance The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has recommended ...

Investment and the art of political maintenance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... collaborative organisations that have taken a position on sustainable and/or ethical investment and that consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) related risks and opportunities are making a values-based judgement about companies, industries ...

Christian Super selects three impact investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
Christian Super has chosen to make three new allocations to impact investment funds with defined environmental and social benefits. Christian Super has selected Laudex, a Mexican financial services company that provides student loans for the purposes ...

Financial System Inquiry recommends on impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... facilitate the development of the impact investment market in Australia. Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing, Social Ventures Australia The Financial System Inquiry (FSI) addressed a broad mission statement of laying out a blueprint ...

ASX50 companies not making strategic case for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... cited the fewest number of megaforces - three, the report found. By not taking a strategic mindset in which environmental, social and governance and economic issues are connected to business value, companies are also not connecting investors to how sustainability ...

Altius Asset Management launches sustainable bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... the sustainable bond fund is also expected to make positive tilts towards issuance such as green bonds and potentially social impact bonds, Bovingdon said. "Positive tilts would have to stack up from an investment point of view, and we will assess them ...