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Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... they get help and there is patience, the bills often get paid, rather than getting written off. Companies like AGL and Origin now regard this practice as a positive and is included in their CSR reports. We also invest in those two companies as do other ...

Community Sector Banking to extend microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Additional government funding will allow Community Sector Banking to extend loans to hundreds more people in Queensland and northern New South Wales, according to Peter Quarmby, Community Sector Banking's executive director. Peter Quarmby, Community ...

Net Balance: financial, shared value performance related

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... CSV scores over the five years of analysis include Wesfarmers, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Transurban, NAB, ANZ, Stockland, Origin Energy, AGL Energy, IAG, Santos and Bluescope Steel. See Also: Net Balance launches research and development institute

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Legal practice Norton Rose has launched Clean Energy Law in Australia, an online subscription service that provides commentary on commonwealth laws covering the clean energy industry. Elisa de Wit Norton Rose has also published a book of the same name ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
If you eat or drink in Australia, you're likely to have been a Woolworths customer once or twice this year. If not, you may have bought something in a big box from BigW or Masters, as Woolworths pushes to match its doppelganger Wesfarmers in every sector. ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance opens third Good Money site

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
Good Shepherd Microfinance has opened a retail site in Melbourne to provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney at the Good Money launch ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Companies should be assessing the full range of strategic options of response to the carbon pricing mechanism, and not doing so is as risky as doing nothing at all, according to a new Ernst & Young report. Many businesses have implemented the processes ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... that we've done already and are moving into as this market matures. For example, under the finance model that we have with Origin, the expertise is in Origin's hands and that's where it should be, because that's where the customer is facing and that's ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds are proving a popular option with investors, with demand exceeding supply in a recent regional French environmental bond. Sean Kidney, executive chair of the Climate Bonds Initiative says that the investor interest in green bonds should ...

Carol Adams named director of secretariat for AA1000 series

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Carol Adams has been named director of the secretariat for the AA1000 standards series at global think tank and advisory services firm AccountAbility. Carol Adams Adams, pro vice-chancellor (Sustainability) and professor at La Trobe University, has ...