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Good Shepherd Microfinance to open Good Money site in Morwell, Victoria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
Good Shepherd Microfinance will open a branch of its Good Money retail stores in Morwell, Victoria next year. Good Shepherd CEO Adam Mooney at announcement of new Good Money Centre in Morwell, Victoria. (photo courtesy of Good Shepherd Microfinance) ...

Cash Converters to pay more than $12 million after ASIC investigation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
Payday lender Cash Converters will refund AU$10.8 million to consumers and has paid an AU$1.35 million penalty after an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ASIC agreed to ...

SSGA launches tobacco, controversial weapons-free global equities fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched an international equities fund which screens out companies involved in tobacco and controversial weapons. Jonathan Shead, head of portfolio strategies, Asia Pacific, SSGA The State Street International ...

BNP Paribas to develop products around Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking will develop structured products tied to the Solactive Sustainable Development Goals World Index. BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking has been licensed for the new equity index, which consists ...

UCA Funds Management adds Nine Entertainment Company to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
UCA Funds Management has added Nine Entertainment Company to its list of excluded companies due to its "market leading position in attracting advertising revenue from the gambling industry." Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management The ethical funds manager ...

LGS adapts investment screens for Sustainable Australian Shares option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... Shares (SAS) investment option. LGS CEO Peter Lambert LGS has made three changes, including broadening existing screens to exclude companies that provide "significant services" to prohibited industries including armaments, weapons, tobacco, mining and ...

Banks, fund managers developing ethical cash products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
Investment managers and banks are focusing their attention on cash as an asset class that can be developed into responsible investment and ethical cash products, driven by retail demand and core business strategy. Sasha Courville, head of social innovation ...

Investors seeking ESG themes, factors in fixed income portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... ESG-related strategies. Strong increases - albeit from a small base - in issuance of green bonds as well as strategies to exclude corporates and sovereigns with less than optimal performance on ESG factors has led to the development of ethical, or environmental ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance to open Queensland Good Money sites

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
Good Shepherd Microfinance will expand its Good Money retail sites into Queensland by opening branches in Cairns and the Gold Coast in 2017. Adam Mooney, CEO of Good Shepherd Microfinance The proposed Good Money stores in Queensland are backed by the ...

Dimensional Fund Advisors launches Global Sustainability Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... additional environmental factors that may be important to investors as well. Dimensional also employs social screens to "exclude or reduce exposure" to companies connected to or derive revenue from practices such as tobacco, gambling, alcohol, child ...