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Westpac commits to recruiting 400 Indigenous university interns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Westpac?" Since 2011, the bank has taken on board 45 Indigenous Australian university students in varying business units in retail and business banking, legal and secretariat, human resources and communication, project development and financial markets ...

CEFC finances $20m in business energy improvements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and Commonwealth Bank have financed AU$20 million in energy productivity projects for business via the Energy Efficient Loan program. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO The Energy Efficient ...

Good Super appoints Andrew MacLeod as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... late last year. He said he was attracted to the role at Good Super because of the fund's investment mission. Good Super, a retail superannuation fund that launched last year, has the stated goal of generating member returns by investing to impact on ...

Instreet Investment buys The Emerald Club

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... the next stage." Medcalf highlighted the SMAs available on The Emerald Wrap as an innovation. "The biggest impact to the retail client is that having a platform available via advisers has given them access to SMAs and to products that they wouldn't have ...

Green bond issuance hits US$36.6 billion for 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Bonds Initiative reports that there has been a diversification in product types, such as the World Bank issuing a series of retail-investor-focused green bonds, and bonds issued in six currencies. Corporate issuance of green bonds emerged in 2014 - the ...

The Sustainability Report's top articles of 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... with poorer ESG scores and toward companies with better ESG scores. Good Super launches, aims for ethical impact A new retail superannuation fund, Good Super, has been launched with the mission of generating member returns by investing to impact on thematic ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance, Suncorp pilot microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Microfinance's existing financial services products. In Victoria, Good Shepherd Microfinance operates three Good Money retail sites that provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people. ...

Altius Asset Management launches sustainable bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... management. It is publicly available on several platforms, including Powerwrap, and Bovingdon said it was open to both retail and institutional investment.

Mirvac reports on first year of new sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... by 17.68%, but saw energy use per square metre rise from 0.31 GJ/m2 to 0.39 GJ/m2, a 26.18% increase over 2013. In its retail properties, carbon intensity fell by 2.71% and energy intensity fell by 0.2%. On water, Mirvac's retail properties used 462,937kL ...

AXA IM to offer impact investing fund of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... investors, Christensen said. Earlier this year, AXA IM launched an integrated ESG SmartBeta fund in Australia, available to the retail market via the Asgard platform. The AXA IM All Country World Index (ACWI) SmartBeta Equity Fund was seeded with AU$55 ...