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Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... entitled IMPACT - Australia: Investment for social and economic benefit, which examines how Australia can use financial capital to effectuate economic and social outcomes. The report looks at how overseas markets have developed impact investing models ...

StepUP loans provide social, economic return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... million. NAB has committed AU$130 million to microfinance programs, Mooney said, so there is scope to expand the loan from a capital perspective. "The recommendation to broaden the loan purpose a little bit more so that it's not limited to any particular ...

IIRC publishes Integrated Reporting consultation draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... consultation draft has been welcomed by local experts. "Many drivers of company value, such as human and intellectual capital, are not accounted for in conventional corporate reports; short-changing corporate investments and initiatives whose pay-offs ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Slightly more than 14% of the ASX200 market capitalisation is based on fossil fuels, and the value of fossil fuel assets is at risk in a carbon constrained world, but the risk is not evenly distributed across all resources or across a long term time ...

Applying multiple capitals essential to integrated reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Accountants (NBA). Professor Carol Adams The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) defines capitals as financial capital, manufactured capital, intellectual capital, human capital, social and relationship capital, and natural capital. The ...

SIRIS placed into administration, company confirms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... for about 18 months to find what we've referred to as a strategic investor, where what we've been seeking is not just capital but primarily something that would transfer the business model," said Charles Macek, chairman of the board at SIRIS. "The journey ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... worked as a director at the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and has also worked in NSW Treasury, in venture capital in the US and UK, and in the UK Treasury. He steps in as the CEO role has been expanded from a part-time to a full-time ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... come from, as well as the traditional retrofit of existing buildings. We view there should be potential in both. We have capital available to fund both precinct generation opportunities as well as the traditional retrofit opportunities." See Also: bankmecu ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... enterprise, University of Michigan Impacted by extreme weather events and guided by changing consumer demand and pressures on capital, companies are acting to manage risk and take advantage of opportunities, topics that will be addressed this week at ...

CEC to partner with American Council on Renewable Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... corporations, financiers, politicians and civil society organisations. US delegation representatives include Citigroup, Denham Capital, Deutsche Bank, First Solar, IBM, Lockheed Martin, S&C Company, Recurrent, Sungevity, SolarReserve, Sunpower, and Skadden ...