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South Australia government to support Good Money store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... expenses or consolidate debts. The financial services provided by Good Money make people feel valued, included and in control of their own finances and lives." One in six, or 3.1 million adult Australians, is financially excluded and unable to access ...

NAB outlines goals in 2014 Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... NILS loans, 180 new StepUP loans and 50 new AddsUP Savings accounts in 2014 "The evidence shows that people feel more in control of their life as a result our Indigenous Money Mentors program but being able to do a SROI and put a dollar measurement on ...

Remuneration consultant disclosure regime questioned

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... use [remuneration consultant disclosures] as a general barometer of the culture of entitlement or a board's view on cost control, but I actually suspect that if used properly, the people who should be using [these disclosures] are the boards," Lawrence ...

Co-operatives "have role to play" in public service delivery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). "Big ticket policy initiatives like the NDIS are supposedly about shifting control and choice to the consumer. Co-ops and mutuals have members rather than shareholders at heart. They are a perfect marriage ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... Dawson said. "In some states, we pass costs of energy and water consumption on to the tenant in the lease, and if we don't control the costs, we lose market share. In Queensland, we pay for those costs ourselves, so we directly benefit from reduction ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... resilient themes - transport, energy, finance, buildings and industry, agriculture and forestry and waste and pollution control to derive the list. Transport bonds dominated the list of climate-themed bonds, representing 79%. Clean energy and climate ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... accountant from The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA), and an independent non-executive director of Control Instruments Group Ltd. and of Coronation Fund Managers Ltd. She is a member of the Education Advisory Group to the International ...

Westpac, CBA raise $10 million for Benevolent Society SBB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... the basis of the bond's return calculation. "Measuring the progress has been a tricky one, because you have to have a control group," Sandy Blackburn-Wright, the then-head of social innovation at Westpac told The Sustainability Report in June, when The ...

Nippon Gas buys stake in COzero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... energy management technology platform to monitor and report on energy usage. "EnergyLink is a real-time monitoring and control system for anyone spending $20,000 or more on power per year," Armstrong said. "It's really kind of a low-cost alternative ...

PRI: ESG factors material to sovereign bond creditworthiness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... gauging political risk, those risks were underestimated. "The working group felt that Moody's, S&P and Fitch, which together control about 95% of the global market for credit ratings, underestimated or overlooked the importance of corruption," the paper ...