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Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
The increased interest in using debt and equity instruments to fund social enterprises in Australia is leading financiers, investors and government bodies to consider various vehicles for financing businesses from within the community, including a category ...

Westpac number one on global sustainability list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... CleanTech and environmental services by 2017 and has committed to make up to $2 billion available for lending and investment in social and affordable housing and services by 2017. Westpac was not the only Australian company to be listed in the Global ...

Good Super launches, aims for ethical impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... investing to impact on thematic, long-term questions facing Australia, including climate change, changing demographics, and social justice issues. "To make change, you need three things - time money and intent," said Aron Ping D'Souza, Good Super executive ...

SVA names Mark Herbertt Queensland director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Social Ventures Australia (SVA) has named Mark Herbertt Queensland director. Mark Herbertt, Social Ventures Australia Herbertt has worked in both the government and private sector, in Australia, the Seychelles and the UK, SVA said. He has served on ...

NAB, bankmecu, Stockland on Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... over time. The framework is a principles-based structure to aid reporting on financial, manufactured, intellectual, human, social and relationship, and natural capitals that an organisation uses and affects. The goal of the IR framework is to push the ...

Potential impact investment market estimated at $32 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... active investors are small, relative to what is needed to achieve that figure, according to a recent report. David Rickards, Social Enterprise Finance Australia According to a report produced by the University of Sydney Business School, misperceptions ...

Kmart, Pacific Brands increase Bangladesh disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... moves signal that retailers are responding to multi-stakeholder approaches to engaging with companies on their potential social risks, said Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, senior research analyst at AMP Capital Investors. "It is a positive outcome," Carlsson-Sweeny ...

Integrated Reporting framework launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... over time. The framework is a principles-based structure to aid reporting on financial, manufactured, intellectual, human, social and relationship, and natural capitals that an organisation uses and affects. The goal of the IR framework is to push the ...

More Australian companies report corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... companies only scored 59 percent in terms of overall quality." KPMG noted that only 46% of Australian companies identify social or environmental impacts across their supply chain, meaning that improved management and governance in this area needs to ...

Co-operatives "have role to play" in public service delivery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... to the consumer. Co-ops and mutuals have members rather than shareholders at heart. They are a perfect marriage of the social purpose of the business with the efficiency of the private sector," Morrison said. Co-operatives have a comparative advantage ...