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Sustainalytics hires Gary Hewitt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
Sustainalytics has hired Gary Hewitt to lead the development of expanded corporate governance research and data products. Hewitt is former head of governance research at GMI Ratings. He previously led a research team at Watson Wyatt (now Towers Watson) ...

SVA: Newpin social benefit bond returns 7.5% in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... UnitingCare Burnside will deliver a return of 7.5% to investors this year after its first 12 months. Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing, Social Ventures Australia According to Social Ventures Australia (SVA), which launched the SBB ...

ASIC accepts Community 21's prospectus for share raising

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... 21, which is seeking to raise up to AU$4 million in a share offering open to non-profits. Peter Quarmby, Community 21 executive director Community 21 is the financial services organisation that jointly owns Community Sector Banking with Bendigo and Adelaide ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Century. The report finds that Asian-Australians represent 9.3% of the Australian labour force, but only 4.9% are in senior executive levels, a situation that the report's authors call the bamboo ceiling. "There is a lack of cultural diversity in Australian ...

CDSB consultation finds broad support for framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... want to understand how different frameworks align with each other or interact with each other," said Lois Guthrie, CDSB executive director. "I would say that from the respondents, virtually everyone said yes, we acknowledge that environmental reporting ...

Oncologist leads drive for tobacco stock divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... tobacco companies, a position she found morally incompatible with her job as an oncologist. She contacted the fund's executive and investment teams and finally their board, with the backing of the then-CEO of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Craig ...

GRI names Michael Meehan new chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has hired Michael Meehan as its new chief executive. Meehan is a sustainability CEO and entrepreneur and has led companies in several countries, including Carbonetworks from 2004-2010 and iVeridis Corporation from ...

Financial System Inquiry addresses impact investment market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... to take a more active role in providing risk capital and establishing a social investment bank," said Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing at SVA. "We were keen proponents of that.We're also keen proponents of looking at tax concessions ...

Global Reporting Initiative hires chief of staff

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... staff, Syvanen will coordinate strategy development and monitoring and operational management. She will work with the executive management team to "plan and formulate GRI's strategy going forward and supervise the implementation of departmental business ...

Addressing the human crisis of climate change displacement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... affected people have access to land, according to a new book edited by climate change expert Scott Leckie. Scott Leckie, executive director, Displacement Solutions Land Solutions to Climate Displacement is based on field work from countries where climate-change-based ...