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Super funds show 5.7% jump in percentage of women directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Industry Moves, an online database providing research on employment moves and trends in institutional and retail financial services has analysed public sector and industry funds with more than AU$1 billion in FUM and presented the research to The Sustainability ...

Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
The payday lending and goods rental/leasing sector is a fast-growing part of the financial services sector, but there are social and financial risks to the sector. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney Recently, Credit Suisse's Asia Pacific/Australia ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB on "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... London Benchmarking Group for investing 4.55% of pre-tax profits in community programs, which is 12.6 times the financial services industry average in Australia and New Zealand. "There is a growing tide of socially aware consumers who are sending a strong ...

Ethical Advisers' Co-operative AUM reach nearly $1 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Management, DJ Carmichael, Ethical Investment Advisers, Tas Ethical, Ethical Investment Services, and Guidance Financial Services. Investors are putting new money into a variety of diverse ethically screened products, but superannuation and direct investments ...

AXA IM ESG SmartBeta fund 5% stronger than benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Index (ACWI) SmartBeta Equity Fund was launched in September in Australia and was seeded from local Australian Financial Services licensee Financial Index Wealth Accountants (FIWA). The strategy currently has AU$70 million in assets under management ...

Teachers Mutual Bank leads in community investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... (LBG). The 4.55% figure is AU$1.67 million of pre-tax profits for the mutual bank, and it is 12.6 times the financial services sector average for Australia and New Zealand, Teachers Mutual Bank said. Teachers Mutual Banks' average contribution per full-time ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance, Suncorp pilot microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... which is very exciting." The microinsurance product offering expands on Good Shepherd Microfinance's existing financial services products. In Victoria, Good Shepherd Microfinance operates three Good Money retail sites that provide access to microfinance ...

Christian Super selects three impact investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... investment funds with defined environmental and social benefits. Christian Super has selected Laudex, a Mexican financial services company that provides student loans for the purposes of social development, the IFC Catalyst Fund, a private equity fund ...

Altius Asset Management launches sustainable bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... representatives - Trevor Thomas, managing director of Ethinvest, and Matthew Moore, senior portfolio manager from Uniting Financial Services. Moore also sits on the Uniting Church (NSW) Synods Ethical Investment Committee and is a former director of ...

RIAA panel discusses tackling ESG duties, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... is, objectively, we can see that the vast majority of credible institutions around the world do. Insurers, financial services companies, governments, business and economic think tanks. So looking at that, it doesn't matter what we think - we can objectively ...