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US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... targeting banks JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo for providing debt financing for two for-profit prison companies - Core Civic and GEO Group - that operate immigrant detention centres housing people. For the US grassroots organisations, which have organised ...

Omega Global Investors, Pinnacle Investment Management in strategic partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
Omega Global Investors has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Pinnacle Investment Management Group Limited. Mathew McCrum, co-founder Omega Global Investors Pinnacle has purchased a minority equity stake in the $4.2 billion Omega, leaving ...

Reports analyse landscape for sustainability disclosures by corporate Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
Australian companies continue to improve their sustainability reporting, with focus on environmental issues such as climate change and water, however there are still laggards that are not reporting sufficiently or at all on sustainability issues, according ...

Sodexo Australia moves to cage free eggs for fresh egg supply

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
Sodexo Australia has begun sourcing 9 million fresh eggs for its Australian operations from cage free egg supplier Farm Pride Foods. Photo courtesy Sodexo Australia The switch to cage-free eggs comes seven years ahead of parent company Sodexo's corporate ...

Meat and fish producers not managing ESG risks: FAIRR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
The world's biggest meat and fish companies are not managing critical business risks such as greenhouse gas emissions and antibiotics risk, with three Australian companies scoring medium or high risk, according to the FAIRR Protein Producers Index. ...

CDSB, TCFD launch knowledge hub for organisational implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) have launched a TCFD Knowledge Hub to provide insights, tools and resources for organisations implementing the TCFD recommendations. The ...

Government finds no legislative barriers to implementing TCFD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
The federal government says there are no legislative barriers preventing the full adoption of the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) in corporate reporting. Sarah Barker, special counsel, Minter Ellison ...

Acorns Grow Australia to launch superannuation product

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
Acorns Grow Australia will launch a superannuation product next month, a product that will be fully integrated in Acorn Australia's existing app. George Lucas, Instreet Managing Director "We have always been much more than a savings and investment tool," ...

Instreet Investment takes majority stake in Acorns Grow Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
Instreet Investment Limited has announced it has increased its ownership stake in Acorns Grow Australia. George Lucas, Instreet Managing Director Instreet said it now has a majority stake in Acorns Grows Australia, but would not disclose the financial ...

SVA Diversified Impact Fund receives more than $10m in funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
Social Ventures Australia's recently launched SVA Diversified Impact Fund has reached first close ahead of its end-of-year deadline, and has received commitments exceeding its $10 million minimum size. Alex Oppes, director, impact investing at SVA The ...