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Super funds show 5.7% jump in percentage of women directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
Superannuation fund trustee boards have a higher percentage of women on their boards than ASX listed companies. This week, Women on Boards (WOB) presented their 2015 Boardroom Diversity Index (BDI), which evaluated 1422 organisations across multiple ...

Increase in ASX board cultural diversity: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
Cultural diversity on ASX-listed corporate boards has increased, but boardrooms do not yet reflect the broader Australian community, according to research from Diversity Council Australia (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia DCA partnered ...

NAB places second green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank has placed another green bond - this time $205 million in the United States bond markets to finance an Australian wind farm, the bank has announced. The bond funding is for the Hallett Hill (HH2) wind farm in South Australia ...

Women on Boards tracks gender diversity gains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
There have been increases in the number of women on boards across many sectors in Australia, but progress is uneven and in some cases, such as on boards of state-owned corporations in Queensland, Western Australia and the federal government, there have ...

Future Home Loans to broker fossil fuel free loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
The founders of Future Super have launched Future Home Loans, a mortgage broking company that will assist people in taking up or switching their home loans to banks that do not finance the expansion of the fossil fuel sector. Simon Sheikh, managing ...

Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
A coalition of investors and other stakeholders are planning to engage with ASX-listed payday lenders and goods rental companies in a campaign to improve their lending policies to financially vulnerable Australians. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ...

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 ...

NAB launches Impact Investment Grant Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank (NAB) has launched its AU$1 million Impact Investment Grants Program. Corinne Proske, head of community finance and development, NAB The fund will support the development of social enterprises - for-profit businesses that are ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB on "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
Teachers Mutual Bank and National Australia Bank (NAB) are the two Australian companies to be listed in the Ethisphere Institute's Most Ethical Companies for 2015. The two banks joined Brazil's Banco do Brasil S.A. in the Banks: National category of ...

AXA IM ESG SmartBeta fund 5% stronger than benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... currently has AU$70 million in assets under management and has posted a return of 5% of its benchmark, the MSCI ACWI ex- Australia Index (AUD). The AXA IM ESG SmartBeta strategy combines AXA Rosenberg's SmartBeta quantitative strategy, which improves ...