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Impact Investing Australia hires Daniel Madhavan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Impact Investing Australia has hired Daniel Madhavan to the newly created role of chief executive officer. Daniel Madhavan, CEO, Impact Investing Australia Madhavan comes to Impact Investing Australia from JBWere, where he worked for 12 years in a range ...

APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... should or should not disclose, but if a superannuation fund determines that an environmental or social issue has material impact on the fund, it must be disclosed in the risk management declaration, APRA confirmed. This explicit broadening of the definition ...

UNSW issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... South Wales (UNSW) has issued its firs t sustainability report, disclosing its environmental and social performance and the impact of its sustainability research and education. The university disclosed its performance around waste, water and energy ...

VicSuper publishes first G4, Integrated Reporting annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... multi-stakeholder based process, Simpson said. The process this year was purely internal, although the fund will assess the report's impact with their external stakeholders. "The stakeholder based materiality was one of the most important things we did," ...

Australian companies still lag on anti-corruption policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... anti-corruption regimes through the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act 2010. These pieces of legislation can impact on Australian and New Zealand organisation with international operations or who deal with US and UK-based firms. ...

Local Government Super enhances carbon-related screens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... "This is driven by a view that climate change is occurring and gov'ts will need to react to climate change. It will heavily impact heavy carbon emitting producers, but the world needs power and there will be demand particularly from developing economies ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... both decided to find other means to influence the process of divestment from fossil fuels, he said. "We thought about the impact we could have through financial services and getting people to divest from fossil fuels and support renewables," he said. ...

KPMG: top global miners make $1.2bn in social investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... companies have a more "scatter-gun" approach to social investments, rather than a clear strategy for investments, which can impact on the investments' efficiencies and maximised benefits. "I think companies understand that they can't just throw money ...

IGCC calls on PM to retain Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... policy framework and support both past and future investments in renewable energy in Australia." See Also: CEC analyses impact of removing Renewable Energy Target

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... improved local employment for people who have struggled to get into the mainstream workforce. This is having a sustainable impact. The investment will finance the acquisition of the property, the refurbishment of that property, and MiHaven are also subdividing ...