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Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... strategic question - what is the shared value to that. That applies to any number of topics - energy efficiency, community investment." With the tools available and a growing demand for companies to implement goals that are aligned to their strategy ...

Mirvac marks strategic process in 2015 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... by 2015; re-imagining resources - to be net positive by 2030; and enriching communities - "demonstrating community investment within and beyond our boundaries by 2018", Mirvac has said. In terms of achieving its sustainability targets, the company held ...

NZ responsible investment assets increase 10%: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... impact investment. "There is a challenge here in categorising the community trusts, who are involved in active community investment through their grant making," the report noted. "However, for the purposes of this report, the trusts are assessed on the ...

Mirvac integrates sustainability in "place-making" thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... by 2015; re-imagining resources - to be net positive by 2030; and enriching communities - "demonstrating community investment within and beyond our boundaries by 2018", according to Mirvac's sustainability report. "Essentially Mirvac have a mission to ...

Teachers Mutual Bank leads in community investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
Teachers Mutual Bank spent 4.55% of pre-tax profits on community investment in the last financial year, making the bank a global leader, according to the 2014 London Benchmarking Group (LBG). The 4.55% figure is AU$1.67 million of pre-tax profits for ...

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... issue out there is the general financial discipline that's being imposed on companies and certainly around community investment, companies are really pushing the hard questions about what's the value. The companies say, we make all these community investments ...

Mirvac reports on first year of new sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... by 2015; re-imagining resources - to be net positive by 2030; and enriching communities - "demonstrating community investment within and beyond our boundaries by 2018", according to Mirvac's sustainability report. "Mirvac's been very good in the past ...

KPMG finds companies invest $12.2bn in social programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... and targets that all parties are willing to put money to, in terms of rewards. Do we think the model for community investment might change if this experiment works? Perhaps. Could you imagine a world where the vast majority of corporate community investment ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... and reducing environmental and social risks in the supply chain and defining the social value metrics of community investment programs, according to expert practitioners. Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility ...

Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... for a community bond, won't it, but it will also require information on what benefit would be produced by a community investment because you'd expect that as well." The current language of the Corporations Act does not have to be amended to permit the ...