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Foresters Community Finance funding for early stage ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). Foresters was one of three fund managers selected by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to administer the AU$20m SEDIF, which was established to improve social enterprises' access ...

Melbourne wins energy efficient built environment award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... suggests that the Gross Local Product of the City of Melbourne increased from $58 billion in 2008 to $68 billion in 2012. Employment has received a major boost with 50,000 additional jobs created over the same period. The construction and building industries ...

Carbon price uncertainty erodes business investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... perspective. It has also had both strategic and operational impacts, because you have decisions made around contracts and also employment opportunities, so not only strategic impacts but impacts in the operational sense as well." The survey results show ...

J.P. Morgan rates Australian REITs reporting, management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... diversity and workplace health and safety, and the majority of the internally managed REITs have some form of engagement/employment survey in place. "Gender diversity appears to be on every board's agenda, as all REITs made a concerted effort to highlight ...

Two directors stepping down at Australian Ethical Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... executive role with Australian Ethical Investment in November 2011. Newnham is quitting Australian Ethical to take employment with another organisation, Australian Ethical ays. "Steve has made a significant contribution to the board over the past few ...

Reconciliation Australia receives $14.4m in budget funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... works with companies on reconciliation action plans (RAP), in which companies set goals and targets for indigenous employment, hiring and greater cultural awareness. "Tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait lslander people are directly benefiting ...

SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... environmental standards at a "reasonable" price. SEFA is one of three fund managers selected by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) to administer the AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). ...

Superannuation funds urged to examine impact of investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... However, in meeting this obligation, we are directing the allocation of capital in Australia. We are directly impacting employment, innovation, infrastructure, productivity, taxation, energy investment and the like."

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... services sector to set up a financial services forum to address this. Earlier this month, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) and JBWere released a report entitled IMPACT - Australia: Investment for social and economic ...

NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... were exceeded, 14 were completed and 16 remain in progress, meaning that results fell short of target set. In terms of employment, NAB cited growth in Indigenous employment, from 97 employees in 2011 to 142 in 2012, with 19 trainee graduates moving into ...