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Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... The payday lending and goods rental/leasing sector is a fast-growing part of the financial services sector, but there are social and financial risks to the sector. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney Recently, Credit Suisse's Asia Pacific/Australia ...

NAB launches Impact Investment Grant Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Grants Program. Corinne Proske, head of community finance and development, NAB The fund will support the development of social enterprises - for-profit businesses that are driven by a social or environmental mission. "We believe we have a responsibility ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB on "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
Teachers Mutual Bank and National Australia Bank (NAB) are the two Australian companies to be listed in the Ethisphere Institute's Most Ethical Companies for 2015. The two banks joined Brazil's Banco do Brasil S.A. in the Banks: National category of ...

AXA IM ESG SmartBeta fund 5% stronger than benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... eliminating equities that have "unappealing earnings profiles" and high volatility, and overlays it with environmental, social and governance (ESG) data from AXA IM's responsible investment team, AXA IM has previously told The Sustainability Report. ...

Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... management. Sector specific factors were environmental enabling, privacy protection and data security, and digital inclusion/social enabling. Within banks and diverse financials, RobecoSAM identified eight financially material sustainability issues - ...

Funds using custodian to monitor ESG mandates: J.P. Morgan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are using their custodians to assist in monitoring manager adherence to environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements, according to J. P. Morgan Investor Services. Custodians are the repository of data on asset level ...

Future Super founders to launch Future Home Loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... continue to do - find the events where we can have the face-to-face contact, but we will also continue to concentrate on social media," he said. "Online advertising is a great source of membership for us. Global Divestment Day was great for us -it mobilised ...

Global sustainable investments rise to US$21.4tr: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... investment universe, and is a collaboration between members of the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) and the Japan Social Investment Forum. It collates results from market studies in regions including Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, Asia ...

Gordon Hagart to leave ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... members who fund us and give us the mandate." Hagart came to ACSI from the Future Fund, where he was head of environmental, social and governance risk management. Prior to that, he worked with the United Nations Environment Program in Geneva, where he ...

Towers Watson outlines framework for fossil fuel risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... to have to go through this." Thomas noted that the analysis in this paper can easily be applied to other environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related topics. "We thought about whether we'd include a broader set of factors in the paper, such as ...