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Right Seat, Right Table, a guide for aspiring board members

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... risk, because cognitive diversity reduces potential blindspots. "If you think about it, depending on your upbringing, education, life experiences and the places you grew up, you'll view the world through a particular filter," Smith said. "You might have ...

Zuper Super launches Wealthness hub to educate, engage member base

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... optimise the conditions in your life more generally. It's a content hub and that feeds back into our big platform - education and helping you reskill and retrain. Articulating the ways in which we have moved past traditional, static money relationship ...

Australian businesses seek positive social impact: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... conversation is about the effect of technology on the future of work. We're seeing government inquiries into in the future of education, we're seeing engagement by business on STEM education, these are all an indication that executives are getting it. ...

Q&A: Yolanda Beattie, Mercer, talks Future IM/Pact initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
Mercer is launching an industry-sponsored initiative, Future IM/Pact, aimed at increasing the diversity of talent coming into the investment management industry, specifically the lack of women coming into - and progressing through - the industry. Future ...

Giant Leap venture capital fund seeks impact businesses for investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... Charlton and Peter Cameron. The fund is sector agnostic, but the fund hopes to see more opportunities in the healthcare and education sectors "because there are social issues there that we would love to see addressed through business," Richardson said. ...

Meat and fish producers not managing ESG risks: FAIRR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... investment being low in the sector. What emerges from that enquiry is ways to overcome those challenges with investor education."

Australian Millennials question business motivations, ethics: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... companies provided staff training. Those who did spent around 2% of their total wages bill, on average, on training and education, according to Stacey Edmonds, Future of Learning leader and partner at Deloitte. Employers need to engage with Millennial ...

Man Group analyses tobacco considerations in investment strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... traditionally been the domain of traditional asset managers," he said. "We are having the conversations with clients and running education programs with managers, trying to refine the policy framework, and just thoughtfully thinking about these issue ...

Protecting impact from Greenwash - Duncan Paterson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... certification process for impact investments, there is no magic bullet to address this problem. The solution lies in thorough education for asset owners and their gatekeepers, and responsible behaviour from the marketing teams in the asset manager space. ...

International Finance Corporation issues $300m Kangaroo social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... projects "that provide finance to low-income people, including buying from smallholder farmers, or offering housing, education, and affordable healthcare. The funds will also be used to help lending to women-owned enterprises, and fund projects such ...