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ASX50 companies not making strategic case for sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... according to a report from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Focal Point Australia, CPA Australia and KPMG Australia. Victoria Whitaker, head of GRI Focal Point Australia From Tactical to Strategic: How Australian businesses create value from sustainability ...

Mutuals, co-ops have turnover of $104 billion: BCCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
The top 100 Australia co-operative and mutual businesses - including the top 10 member-owned superannuation funds - had combined turnover of more than AU$104 billion and combined assets of AU$282 billion in 2012/2013, according to a report by the Business ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... fuel companies, we would exclude them." UCA Funds Management is an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, and provides investment management for charities, faith-based organisations and their members. It has AU$900 ...

VicSuper publishes first G4, Integrated Reporting annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Prudential Regulation Authority] APRA reporting requirements are concerned. It has been sent to local ministers here in Victoria, and we have also reused a lot of the information in the report through our internal communications team and other channels. ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... petrol in cars, and gas in buildings and some industrial processes." The report uses modelling from the CSIRO and the Victoria University Centre for Policy Studies, using the same tools as previous analyses by Treasury and the Garnaut Review. ClimateWorks ...

SuperMIND calculates costs of mental illness, suicide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... 55-59 age group. Claim rates for suicide were also nearly five times higher for men than women. SuperMIND found that Victoria and Queensland's claim rates for suicide were almost double the claim rates of other locations and had claim rates for both ...

SMF stepping up advocacy for environmental upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... the absolute term s, and b.) the second stage - how you finance it. It is a market education process." As the state of Victoria considers expanding EUA legislation throughout the state, and the state of South Australia considers its version of EUAs ...

NAB, Good Shepherd Microfinance launch national campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... something they owned if they found themselves without money, while 70% accessed savings or 40% used credit cards. In Victoria, Good Shepherd Microfinance operates three Good Money retail sites that provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling ...

UCA Funds Management appoint independent directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Funds Management Chairman Dick Carter. UCA Funds Management is an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, and provides investment management for charities, faith-based organisation and their members. It has AU$900 million ...

Pollinate Energy to partner with Powershop

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
Pollinate Energy, a not-for-profit social enterprise that provides affordable solar lighting to people in India's urban slums, is establishing a partnership with Victorian energy retailer Powershop that will see the retailer donate $50 to Pollinate ...