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Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... the sustainability wave, re-emerging now around this narrative around impact investment." bankmecu is considering its strategy in how it invests in and finances social enterprises and impact investments. The bank is looking at the potential of community ...

Push continues for Australia to adopt mining payment regime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Canada has gone one step closer to establishing a payment disclosure standard for its listed mining companies, with civil society groups in Australia increasing the focus on seeing a similar regime introduced here. Last week, a multi-stakeholder Resource ...

Westpac number one on global sustainability list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... term value for our customers, employees, shareholders and the community." Westpac recently outlined its sustainability strategy to 2017, and Westpac highlighted several areas of performance in 2013, including an 87% employee engagement score and the ...

IIRC, SASB to collaborate on compatability of frameworks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) will work together to achieve complementarity and compatibility in their respective frameworks. Paul Druckman, IIRC CEO Jean Rogers, SASB ...

APRA: 22% of superannuation fund directors women

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Women held 22% of directorships at superannuation funds in 2013, an increase from 16% in 2006, according to data from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). But although there is a higher percentage of women holding directorships in ...

Paladin Energy, Swala Energy join EITI Supporting Companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Australian companies Paladin Energy and Swala Energy and seven other oil, mining and gas companies have recently joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as supporting companies. According to the EITI, 85 companies around the ...

NAB, bankmecu, Stockland on Integrated Reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... talk about how they create value. You don't have to use those six capitals, you can talk using your own language and strategy and how you add value. It's a guide. Originally, that felt more compulsory and you felt you had to talk to all six, which doesn't ...

Potential impact investment market estimated at $32 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... legitimate role within superannuation fund portfolios, and that there is evidence that a "well-executed impact investment strategy provides trustees the opportunity to build investment portfolios aligned to member's values and with unique exposure and ...

Remuneration consultant disclosure regime questioned

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The rationale behind the requirement on listed companies to disclose information about remuneration consultants is "unclear" and the regime should either be discarded or improved to provide more specific information, according to a report by Ownership ...

CDP to broaden, enhance cities program with Bloomberg grant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Bloomberg Philanthropies has awarded CDP a three-year, US$4.1 million grant to expand and enhance the CDP's reporting platform and technical support for city governments. The grant is a broadening of CDP's relationship with its "long-standing partner" ...