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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 ...

Westpac reports progress on sustainability targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... hitting targets to ensure that their workforce "is representative of the community", with 43% of leadership roles filled by women, ahead of a 42% target for 2014 and an aspirational target of 50% by 2017. Participation of mature age workers is 20.8% ...

ASX reports on progress towards gender diversity targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... still a wide difference in performance when it comes to setting measurable objectives and disclosure of the proportion of women in organisations, according to an ASX-commissioned report. The ASX-commissioned report by KPMG noted that 100% of ASX20 companies ...

AMP Capital increases focus on corporate succession planning

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... update on the benefits of board gender diversity. AMP Capital has found the number of companies it invests in that have no women directors has fallen from 60% to 34% in the last four years. "AMP Capital has looked at the performance of companies where ...

Westpac number one on global sustainability list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... performance in 2013, including an 87% employee engagement score and the fact that 42% of Westpac's leadership roles are held by women and the banking group has set a new target of having 50% women in leadership roles by 2017. In 2013, more than 60% of ...

APRA: 22% of superannuation fund directors women

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Women held 22% of directorships at superannuation funds in 2013, an increase from 16% in 2006, according to data from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). But although there is a higher percentage of women holding directorships in ...

RIAA: majority of Australians would choose responsible super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... showing 5-year returns post-GFC have been stronger for responsible investment funds than the benchmark and mainstream funds." Women were more likely to say they'd rather invest in a responsible superannuation fund than men, at 60% for women versus 49% ...

AMP Capital identifies ESG risks to Australian retailers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... staff engagement has led to better customer satisfaction. In a similar vein, we looked at diversity and the percentage of women in different categories. If there is a different discrepancy between the diversity of staff and the diversity of executives ...