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Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... financial services sector to set up a financial services forum to address this. Earlier this month, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) and JBWere released a report entitled IMPACT - Australia: Investment for social ...

European Commission proposes standards for ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
Large European companies will be required to disclose environmental, social and governance information as part of their annual reporting under a proposal adopted by the European Commission. Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier Companies ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... side," Rickards said. "He brings both sides together." SEFA is one of three fund managers selected by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) to administer the AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). ...

Philanthropy Australia rolling out impact investing program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... manager at PA, who is responsible for the impact investing program. "We are supporting philanthropists in this area with education and inspiration and letting them know what impact investment is, how philanthropists can be involved from a legal/tax view ...

Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... responsible for the management of several other government funds known as the Nation-building Funds - the AU$4.07 billion Education Investment Fund, the AU$5.26 billion Building Australia Fund and the AU$3.24 billion Health and Hospitals Fund. The Nation-building ...

AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... measure social indicators, and ended up selecting the UN's Human Development Index data, which is a comparative measure of education as an average length of schooling and he expected length of schooling based on enrollments by age; health as measured ...

Perpetual hires philanthropic services manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Perpetual from The Ian Potter Foundation, where she was senior program manager. She is a member of the Leading Learning in Education and Philanthropy (LLEAP) research project team and was previously Co-Chair of Philanthropy Australia's Education Affinity ...

Monash University selected as sustainable development hub

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Monash Sustainability Institute develops solutions to climate change and sustainability challenges through research, education and action. MSI runs programs on the ground in countries throughout Asia, including Indonesia, Bangladesh, India and Vietnam. ...

ANZ discloses ESG metrics in 2012 shareholder review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Program, with a focus on their top ten highest impact categories, and publicly reporting on the progress of their supplier education and auditing strategy, public reporting on implementation application and training in their sensitive sector lending ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... in Australia, and the Australian government is further encouraging the sector's development through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations' (DEEWR) AU$20m Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF). SEDIF was established ...