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Addressing the human crisis of climate change displacement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... intervention to access to resources. This is commonplace. It is also commonplace to have state planning of economies, security and social questions."

Barclays, MSCI to launch Green Bond Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Barclays and MSCI have agreed to launch a Green Bond Index, a new addition to their environmental, social and governance (ESG) fixed income benchmark index series. The Green Bond Index will reflect those bonds funding projects with direct environmental ...

Community 21 launches share offer to raise up to AU$4m

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... The equity raised by the share offering will be used to fund new initiatives including a crowdfunding project supporting social outcomes, and the development of impact investing vehicles such as a social impact fund, allowing for equity investment in ...

University of Sydney Business School adopts CAER research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The University of Sydney Business School will utilise CAER's environmental, social and governance research, CAER has announced. Duncan Paterson, CAER CEO The University of Sydney's Business school has taking out an ongoing subscription to the CAER service ...

Northern Trust names new global head of ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Northern Trust Asset Management has named Mamadou-Abou Sarr global head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, a newly created role. Mamadou-Abou Sarr global head of ESG investing, Northern Trust Asset Management, Northern Trust Sarr ...

Northern Trust's Bowers on ESG and funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) into investment management is accelerating in Australia and around the world, guided by demand from asset owners and increasing flexibility in fund design that can tailor strategies that ...

CFI a source of economic opportunity for Indigenous groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... industries that would work, and CFI is on. It returns an income, you can look after sacred sites, you can maintain the social connections and it makes a dollar. Carbon farming has something to offer, because you can use different methodologies in different ...

Co-ops, mutuals a "third way" for public service provision

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... strongly in service delivery is an emergent issue, given the current federal government's public service reform. Minister for Social Services Kevin Andrews spoke to this at a national Making it Mutual Workshop and said that community mutual co-operation ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Progress in integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Australia has been too little and too slow, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR). Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate ...

Foresters Community Finance, InterFinancial to partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... according to its website. As part of the agreement, InterFinancial acquired shares in Foresters' funds management subsidiary, Social Investment Australia (SIA). The partnership with InterFinancial is "the first phase" in a broader capital strategy to ...