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CEFC, CBA finance efficiency upgrades for food processors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... recent financing deals in Victoria as examples of how companies are taking advantage of the program. CEFC noted family business Nightingale Bros in Wandiligong, which grows Alpine apples and chestnuts, is upgrading to a modern ammonia-based refrigeration ...

NZ Super Fund sells partial forestry stake to iwi collective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
New Zealand Superannuation Fund has sold a 2.5% stake in New Zealand's largest forestry business to six iwi organisations. The six iwi representative organisations - Ngati Rangitihi, Ngati Whakaue Assets and Te Arawa River Iwi Limited Partnership, Ngati ...

New national law for co-ops and mutuals to cut red tape

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... National Law (CNL) will reduce regulatory costs and simplify financial reporting for co-ops and mutual, according to the Business Council for Cooperatives and Mutuals (BCCM). Melina Morrison, BCCM CEO (Photo courtesy of BCCM) CNL started this week in ...

NAB outlines goals in 2014 Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... according to the 2014 RAP. NAB's RAP is presented within the context of its Wealth of Opportunity strategy - a three-pillar business strategy approach with corporate responsibility commitments for 2014-2018. The three pillars are: helping Australians ...

Call for EUA inclusion in Emissions Reduction Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... legislation. Further, SMF said the government has to disclose a benchmark price for price discovery, and to incentivise business participation. The ERF has to provide "deeming" of emissions reductions, and finally, SMF supports inclusion of "make good" ...

Global Alliance for Banking on Values to meet in Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... people's lives in the communities in which we operate," Walsh said. "An extension of that is, like a natural ecology, a business ecology requires there to be a diversity in players in the market. We're a small bank, but we only operate in tube real economy ...

CDSB expands natural capital in new reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... cover 79% of natural capital, as specified in a paper by Trucost - Natural Capital at Risk - the top 100 externalities of business '. CDSB said that environmental externality costs can be broken down into the following percentages - greenhouse gas emissions ...

Stewardship: the costs of developing social enterprises

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... businesses that is borne by varying participants, including philanthropies, fund managers, financial intermediaries such as business incubators, and the not-for-profit (NFPs) organisations that are building the businesses themselves. This "stewardship ...

RIAA launches RI Academy in Canada, India

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... approaching us about training their staff. What is needed is a consistent understanding and a consistent foundation on the business case for responsible investment. The RI Academy continues to be a really good tool for doing that because it is flexible. ...

BCCM forms task force to examine public service delivery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
The Business Council of Co-Operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) has assembled a national task force that will prepare a green paper examining the "viability and roles for co-operatives and mutuals in delivering key public services." Melina Morrison, BCCM CEO ...