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ASIC issues report on payday lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... an ethical issue for low income borrowers. They deserve the same level of fairness and honesty that someone getting a housing loan would expect from a bank." Meanwhile, Good Shepherd Microfinance is calling for a new, "responsible referral framework" ...

Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... facility for recipients of governmental welfare payments. It allows automatic deductions for bills such as utilities and housing, and consumer leasing payments for household goods can also be included. "...[An]y changes to CentrePay arrangements for ...

Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... facility for recipients of governmental welfare payments. It allows automatic deductions for bills such as utilities and housing, and consumer leasing payments for household goods can also be included. Credit Suisse cites tightening of CentrePay rules ...

Bondor, QUT partner on sustainable building material project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... have collaborated on two previous projects. The project's goal is to develop an Innovations Adoption Toolkit (IAT) for housing supply chain agents to identify and implement innovations. "This particular project came about from previous research saying ...

Good Super appoints Andrew MacLeod as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... solutions to overcome big picture macro-economic, social and environmental issues facing Australia, including affordable housing, extreme poverty, land use, food security, gender equality, Indigenous health, efficient mass transit, social justice and ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... reported that it is on track on its goal to make up to AU$2 billion available for investment in social and affordable housing. In October, Westpac announced it had signed its largest single community housing finance deal, providing AU$61 million in debt ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Walsh said. The cash portfolio's mortgage book makes loans to community service organisations, aged care facilities and housing for people with disabilities and similar projects, in line with UCA Funds Management's broader commitment to invest 10% of ...

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... is a construction company that trains "indigenous people to build affordable but attractive and durable cyclone rated housing and providing the systems to do so," according to their website. "MiHaven has seen a lot of trainees through their program ...

LGS Taps AMP Capital for social infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... assets are characterised as social infrastructure PPP assets within education, water, health, justice, defence, community housing, recreational facilities, transport and other sectors where income from the assets is primarily derived from long-term ...

J.P. Morgan, GIIN report uptick in impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... and other financial services account for about a fifth of respondents' impact investment assets, with energy at 11% and housing at 8%. Allocations are primarily in private markets - 44% of assets are currently invested through private debt, and 24% through ...