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ACSI sets goal of 30% women on ASX200 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) has announced an initiative to get women comprising 30% of all ASX200 company boards within the next three years. ACSI will make the initiative a priority for its engagement with ASX200 boards ...

Diversity Council Australia urges employer action in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... workplace flexibility, another in the area of racial diversity and the perennial area of assisting organisations to move women into senior leadership. What organisations are doing isn't working, and we need to do new things." DCA provides support and ...

Wesfarmers: lower CO2, more supply chain transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... 2014 financial year, increased supply chain transparency for its Kmart and Target divisions, and increased the number of women in senior roles to 29%, according to its sustainability report. Wesfarmers has grouped ten community and environmental impact ...

Boards more diverse, but ACSI calls for more "skin in the game"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... million which accounted for just 2.1%," the report said. The annual board composition study found that the proportion of women directors on ASX200 boards has continued to grow - women accounted for 20% of all ASX100 board seats and 17% of ASX 100 directors. ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
Westpac Group reported increases in women in leadership roles, lending to cleantech and environmental services of AU$8 billion and new commitments around disclosure of carbon emissions as part of its 2014 sustainability report. Siobhan Toohill, Westpac ...

Interest in green, social bonds continuing: JPMorgan Chase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... this trip, and talking to investors about green bonds and social bonds," Ceci said. "One of those programs is Banking on Women, which helps support women owned businesses in developing countries. There's also interest in a bond that is designed to alleviate ...

SuperMIND calculates costs of mental illness, suicide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... SuperMIND also found gender-based and geographic-based trends. Mental Illness-related TPD Claim rates were higher for men than women at all age groups between 15 and 64 and in most locations, and mental Illness-related income protection (IP) claim rates ...

NAB, Good Shepherd Microfinance launch national campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Money store site in Collingwood, Victoria, Adam Mooney, Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO said that 75% of their clients are women, 40% are single parents, and 25% are people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. "The evidence is in: this ...

Pollinate Energy to partner with Powershop

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... customers being the residents of slums who earn day wages. Pollinate Energy previously told The Sustainability Report that women earn around 200 rupees a day on average and men can earn 300 to 500 rupees per day on average. If people have a ration card ...

Diversity Council Australia measures the bamboo ceiling

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... where Australia is positioned in the rest of the world," said Dai Le, founder and executive director, Diverse Australasian Women's Network. "Australia is geographically located within the Asian region. We have to understand Australian history in terms ...