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BlackRock: ASX200 making "glacial" change in diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... director and head of corporate governance and responsible investment Asia-Pacific at BlackRock. "If you take financial services as an example, - 60% of graduates are female and that has been the case for at least 10 years. Yet if you look at the upper ...

Christian Super invests in microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... microinsurance, but their invested companies also offer pensions, savings and investment products as well. "We invest in financial services companies in Africa and Asia that provide financial tools to low-income and emerging consumers," said Andrew Kuper ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... risk for companies. In Australia, it's more limiting in who they can go to - they should have an Australian Financial Services license in order to be able to trade, which I think is a positive to the Australian scheme. If organisations are going to outsource ...

Ethinvest model portfolios outperform wider ASX indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... don't pay great dividends, but they have had strong growth, and have had strong price performance as well." Financial services and real estate companies feature in the top 10 holdings of both model portfolios - Westpac, Telstra, CSL, AMP, Suncorp, Brambles ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... trust and confidence is critical to their long-term success as a responsible asset manager, noting that the financial services sector overall has a poor level of trust according Edelman Trust Barometer. The asset manager also noted that the UK Financial ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation gets investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... like the CEFC can attract and support private sector interest in low carbon investment and address gaps in financial services markets," said Nathan Fabian, chief executive of the Investor Group on Climate Change. "We think co-financing will quickly become ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... action to grow what is currently a nascent market, a conclusion that has led interested organisations in the financial services sector to set up a financial services forum to address this. Earlier this month, the Department of Education, Employment and ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... efficient jet engines. Similarly, University of Sydney Business School Professor Christopher Wright noted that the financial services industry are also integrating climate change into their risk management models, pointing to the ways in which banks ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... organisations and socially concerned individuals. Michael Walsh Walsh has more than 35 years combined business and financial services experience and possesses more than 13 years in the responsible investment sector as a consultant, publisher of Ethical ...

Government allocates additional funds for microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... Australians classified as fully or severely financially excluded, there is a compelling argument for affordable financial services that assist people to fully participate in society," said Peter Quarmby, Community Sector Banking executive director. "Unfortunately ...