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Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
The increased interest in using debt and equity instruments to fund social enterprises in Australia is leading financiers, investors and government bodies to consider various vehicles for financing businesses from within the community, including a category ...

RIAA: majority of Australians would choose responsible super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
A majority of Australians would rather invest in a responsible superannuation fund than a superannuation fund which only considers maximising financial returns, according to a national poll organised by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia ...

VicSuper chooses SSgA for active global equities ESG mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... their willingness and ability to repay debt. VicSuper developed the new benchmark in consultation with their investment adviser, Towers Watson, and with BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital. In July of this year, Local ...

Inalytics, PIRC find corporate governance, share price link

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Analysis from Inalytics and PIRC, an independent governance research and shareholder voting adviser, has demonstrated that share prices of listed companies with high governance risk performed poorly over time, whereas the share price of listed companies ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... a visiting fellow at Yale University, where he was awarded the 2011 McCluskey Fellowship. Sukhdev was formerly special adviser and Head of UNEP's Green Economy Initiative, and study leader for the G8+5-commissioned project The Economics of Ecosystems ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The United Nations Statistics Division has developed an experimental ecosystem accounting system to quantify ecosystem services and conditions in physical and monetary terms. Although the proposed accounting system is initially intended for governmental ...

SIRIS placed into administration, company confirms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... said Charles Macek, chairman of the board at SIRIS. "The journey has taken a lot longer than we or our investment baking adviser would have thought possible given the size of the business and the strategic value to a whole range of organisations that ...

GNDI: encourage board diversity, but not by quotas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... the boards to encourage diversity throughout management because that develops the pipeline," said Louise Pocock, policy adviser at AICD. "It's a way of getting people from more diverse backgrounds throughout the organisation." AICD has been engaging ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... VicSuper The AU$9.8bn public sector superannuation fund has developed the new benchmark in consultation with their investment adviser, Towers Watson, and with BlackRock Investment Management and index provider Barclays Capital. "We are concerned about ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... report on sustainability as a broader way of looking at business performance," said Amir Ghandar, CPA Australia policy adviser auditing and assurance. "There's a very well established assurance framework that has been primarily applied to financial reports ...