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UCA Funds Management certified as B Corp, signs Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency. "B Corp is to sustainable business what Fair Trade is to coffee," said Mathew Browning, CEO Of UCA Funds Management. "The idea that others can look at us and ...

Omega Global Investors, Pinnacle Investment Management in strategic partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... co-founders Andrew Gruskin and Mathew McCrum, together with the Omega team, will retain majority ownership and control of the business. The decision to partner with Pinnacle was driven by Pinnacle's expertise in distribution, McCrum said. "From Omega's ...

Expert panel discusses growth of Australia's impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... understand them and what they are aiming to achieve, we sit down and co-create the metrics in a way that's helpful for the business." The panel also addressed the fact the majority of impact investing dollars go to products with environemtal impacts ...

Persistent and increasing bonus pay pushes up ASX100 remuneration: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... and that the median bonus awarded to an ASX100 CEO was at 70.5% of maximum entitlement. "At a time when public trust in business is at a low ebb and wages growth is weak, board decisions to pay large bonuses just for hitting budget targets rather than ...

Konica Minolta on working towards ethical supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... supply chain. The bill is widely expected to pass, as it has broad political support from political parties, as well as business, NGOs, investors and other stakeholders. But it will mean that companies will have to dive deeply into their supply chains ...

New Forests acquires New Zealand assets, closes ANZFF2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... target countries of Australia and New Zealand," said Mark Rogers, managing director for New Forests' Australia-New Zealand business. "New Forests has been selective and disciplined in creating the ANZFF2portfolio. The Wenita acquisition complements the ...

Reports analyse landscape for sustainability disclosures by corporate Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... sustainability issues, according to two recent reports on the Australian landscape. Andrew Petersen, CEO, Sustainable Business Australia The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has released Corporate Sustainability Reporting in Australia ...

Mercer advises Business As Different approach to ESG issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
With responsible investments reaching more than a quarter of all investments globally, Mercer is urging business leaders to adopt a "Business As Different" (B.A.D.) approach to environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues. Alexis Cheang ...

CEFC commits $35 million to finance expansion of intelliHUB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... Partners and global smart meter leader Landis+Gyr that is acquiring Acumen, Origin Energy's $267 million smart meter business unit. The Acumen business included the existing management and servicing of an existing 170,000 meters and the combined business ...

Giant Leap venture capital fund seeks impact businesses for investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... brand-new and they don't have any baggage. One of the thing we love about investing in start-ups is that as they scale the business, the impact scales as well, and for us, that's really what excites us, because we're looking for outsized social and environmental ...