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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 ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... to gain additional value through the growing acceptance and valuation of ecosystem services, which puts environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations at the heart of such assets, Welsh said. "We've found at Kilter Rural, when you think about ...

Colonial First State GAM publishes global stewardship code

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... financial system more broadly, and how do we hold those companies to a high standard, be it in relation to environmental, social or governance issues. This puts a line in the sand for the way we should consider these issues in the future." As one example ...

Net Balance urges co-benefits approach for carbon offsets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... co-benefits approach" to increase the value of carbon offsets. Net Balance defines co-benefits as "direct positive outcomes (social, environment and economic) associated with an offset project that are additional to the emissions avoided or the carbon ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance welcomes inquiry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... adult Australians, is financially excluded and unable to access a bank account, small credit or insurance policy, which has social as well as financial implications, said Adam Mooney, Good Shepherd Microfinance chief executive. "What we see a significant ...

RIAA: majority of Australians would choose responsible super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Australians aged 18-24 and the same percentage of those aged 50 or older supporting the idea of funds considering environmental, social and governance issues of companies it invests in. "People are now cottoning on to the fact that you can invest responsibly ...