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Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... cultural backgrounds working in Australia in their latest report, Cracking the Cultural Ceiling: Future Proofing Your Business in the Asian Century. The report finds that Asian-Australians represent 9.3% of the Australian labour force, but only 4.9% ...

Australian National University Investment Office selects CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... environmental, social and governance are increasingly on the radar of university investment teams." See Also: University of Sydney Business School adopts CAER research

Australian Ethical names new portfolio manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... who steps down as portfolio manager of the Larger Companies Trust to "to focus on strategic development of the current business and its offerings," Australian Ethical said. "I am delighted to move Mason up to full control of the Larger Companies Trust. ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... humanity." The challenge isn't finding capital for investment in social enterprises, Addarii said, but rather in building the business models that move from social granting to social investment, building the infrastructure for investment and then finding ...

Australian Forestry Standard releases supply chain standard

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... having been legally harvested and can't come from an illegal source.' The changes put into the standard are to require the business getting certified to have a due diligence system in place, to make sure the wood in their supply chain is legal. So, to ...

CDSB consultation finds broad support for framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... cover 79% of natural capital, as specified in a paper by Trucost - Natural Capital at Risk - the top 100 externalities of business '. CDSB said that environmental externality costs can be broken down into the following percentages - greenhouse gas emissions ...

UCA Funds Management adds Transfield Services to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... people within those detention centres. We turned our mind to two questions - is this a material part of Transfield's business model, and does the contract that Transfield Services has have something to do with the conditions under which people are living ...

AGL installs first solar panels at Nyngan solar plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... NSW; Brian Stanley, First Solar senior VP; Mark Coulton MP, federal member for Parkes; Scott Thomas, AGL general manager business customers and power development; Leslie Williams, MP, NSW parliamentary secretary for renewable energy (Photo provided by ...

PRI to target water risk in agricultural supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has opened a new initiative and will focus on engaging with 54 companies around the world that have water risk exposure in their agricultural supply chain. Fiona Reynolds, UN PRI managing director The agriculture ...

CEFC, CFSGAM to establish clean energy infrastructure fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and the direct infrastructure division Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) will establish the country's first unlisted clean energy direct infrastructure fund. Meg McDonald, chief operating ...