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NAB, Westpac leaders in 2013 CDP Global 500

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Leadership Index (CDLI), identifying companies that are the most climate-transparent. Both National Australia Bank and Westpac Banking appear on the CPLI for the financial sector. One area of reporting that CDP highlighted as a serious gap is the lack ...

RIAA: Responsible Investment portfolios continue to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... small case studies clearly highlighting that it's beyond listed equities now, and we're moving into areas like responsible banking practices and responsible cash. You're also seeing uptake of impact investing in the past year from institutional investors ...

NAB, bankmecu win at Australasian Reporting Awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... social and environmental performance measures," Walsh said. "At bankmecu we believe in a more responsible approach to banking and part of that includes how we report our business performance to our customers, who own the bank." bankmecu, NAB and Stockland ...

SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... AU$10m through its founding shareholders, which also include the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, Community Sector Banking and private individuals and foundations as well as Triodos Bank. SEFA has loaned AU$450,000 to Three Sistas, a social enterprise ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... together in an organised, coordinated way, within the financial services industry, people from super industry, people from banking, etc., and to get them together to share ideas and agree to work on certain things. The second thing is that it will be ...

Australia/NZ companies lag in Corporate Responsibility Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... profits, 10 times the finance sector average, platinum sponsorship of CUFA, the development agency for the Australian mutual banking sector, being awarded the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) Employer of Choice for Women citation ...

NAB publishes 2013 plan for Indigenous employment, inclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... employees, in 2012, the bank also introduced internships, employing six Indigenous university students to work in personal banking, business banking, agribusiness banking, group governance and legal, and people and culture during their semester breaks. ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... AU$10m through its founding shareholders, which also include the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, Community Sector Banking and private individuals and foundations as well as Triodos Bank. SEFA has loaned AU$450,000 to Three Sistas, a social enterprise ...

Q&A with Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... challenge is that there's an oligopolisation process in the finance industry at work, very much tracking what happened in the banking sector. The big four banks have invested heavily into wealth management and financial planning. I guess you'd have to ...

Community Sector Banking to extend microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Additional government funding will allow Community Sector Banking to extend loans to hundreds more people in Queensland and northern New South Wales, according to Peter Quarmby, Community Sector Banking's executive director. Peter Quarmby, Community ...