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Oncologist leads drive for tobacco stock divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... Tobacco-Free Investment Initiative Dr Bronwyn King is a radiation oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Epworth Healthcare. She has also taken on the job of meeting with superannuation fund trustee boards and investment committees with a presentation ...

KPMG finds companies invest $12.2bn in social programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... of their pre-tax profit in programs to ameliorate social and environmental challenges including access to education, healthcare and disaster relief. But the report also found that the vast majority of these companies are not reporting quantified metrics ...

AXA IM develops impact investing fund of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... investment at AXA IM, told The Sustainability Report. "The fund of fund initiative will focus on sectors including healthcare, education and finance and will invest in solutions that will seek globally to increase people's access to those sectors," Christensen ...

NAB, GS Microfinance: more needed on financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... households met the criteria for receiving a NILS loan, according to 2009 statistics. Eligibility is determined by having a Healthcare Concession Card (HCC) or Pensioner Concession Card (PCC). Of that figure, 1.28 million people were found to have "sufficient ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... GIIN said, and more "investors plan to increase the percentage of their portfolios allocated to Food & Agriculture, Healthcare, and Financial Services (excluding Microfinance); the highest number of investors plan to decrease the percentage of their ...

University of Sydney issues second impact investing report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... investment strategies in sectors including "agriculture, microfinance, renewable energy, small and medium enterprises, healthcare, affordable housing and community development," and in asset classes including "private equity, venture capital, private ...

SVA suggests reform for social enterprise capital funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... to which will in the long term contribute to savings to government in terms of provision of service around welfare, healthcare, aged care, disability and so on and support a significant industry," Learmonth said."Social enterprise and non-profit is a ...

Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... gas, tobacco, uranium mining, and weapons, and holds companies in areas including aged care, sustainable property, healthcare, renewable energy, medical technologies, education, and information technology. Ethical Investment Advisers developed the SMA ...

Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... thing around alcohol and tobacco, tends to be one where if companies are acting in the public interest - if you're a healthcare provider, and if you have an exposure to sin stocks like alcohol or tobacco, that will be one that will pop up here and there." ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... helped. But it also reflects that there are some good quality sustainable companies in the ASX100 and ASX50. Some of the healthcare companies don't pay great dividends, but they have had strong growth, and have had strong price performance as well." ...