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StepUP loans provide social, economic return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... literate, and those with a clear budget in mind and can demonstrate that online, as well as those that are digitally literate enough to avail themselves of a loan also do so online, and thus you'll see that instead of the 12 days it currently takes to ...

New industry body to promote women in financial services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... should receive promotions based on merit. "As long as I can remember, I've been hearing the complaint that there's not enough women in management," Beck said. "Companies are very supportive, they'll bend over backwards to provide training and mentoring ...

AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... dollars, according to the paper. "We looked hard and long, and weeded out those criteria that could be nice but there wasn't enough data, and then we said, let's look at the data that is long enough in terms of historical track," Christensen said. "The ...

KPMG: fraud costs Australian/NZ businesses $373 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... organisations surveyed by KPMG see fraud as a key risk. Gary Gill "People don't take fraud, bribery and corruption seriously enough, until the situation actually arises," said Gary Gill, KPMG's national head of forensic. "People say yes, fraud, bribery ...

GNDI: encourage board diversity, but not by quotas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... directorships were women, and in 2012, 25% of new directorships were given to women.... [W]e are not of the opinion that this is enough - we think there is more work to be done and we do believe that we want women to represent at a higher percentage ...

ACCSR focus on responsible leadership in conference, report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... today compared to five or ten years ago in terms of understanding and support around the concept, but we haven't come far enough." Driving the CSR agenda through a business requires "cross-functional coordination," and leaders that can manage complexity ...

Low Carbon Australia and CEFC to merge for 2013 launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... of LCAL's programs would transition to the CEFC. "I think some of the programs won't scale up - there just hasn't been enough demand to work on these, but a lot of them have started a certain way and the models are effective and there's more demand for ...

In 2040, when growth is a memory: Josh Dowse

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... meander along to about 1.1% in 2045. At this point, no longer saved by population growth, overall productivity won't be big enough to cover the increasing deadweight costs of a changing climate. Global output will stop growing. What deadweight costs? ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... luck is about to run out again. Terms of trade and capital flows are returning to long-term averages - not bad, but not enough to drive income growth. A growing population means that more aggregate hours are being worked, but it's not enough. Only improved ...

Minerals Council of Australia implementing water accounting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... stakeholders with water-related interest; and water industry consultants. "[The MCA Water Accounting Standard] is flexible enough to respond to the water reporting requirements of the industry - it has to be responsive to the GRI, for example," he said. ...