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Green moves: CSIRO, Ethinvest, Social Enterprise Australia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Australia has a new chair, as does the CSIRO, while two former Ethinvest advisers have gone out on their own. Social Enterprise Australia has announced that Belinda Morrissey has stepped down as chair and was replaced by board member ...

NAB Foundation launches Impact Investing Fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The NAB Foundation created a $50 million impact fund to invest in areas that align to the bank's sustainability priorities, like Indigenous economic advancement, social and affordable housing, and the climate transition. The new Impact Investing ...

Impact investing needs instos to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
While it has gained momentum in the last 15 years, impact investing still requires major backing from institutional investors and governments for it to scale and become a formidable force, the first day of the Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific heard ...

Australia can be energy transition, climate leader

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Australia should seize the next four years as an opportunity to be a leader in climate investing and the energy transition by taking advantage of the US President Donald Trump's hardline anti-ESG stance, a panel of experts say. Australia has the ...

Board cyber security oversight 'endangers' firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Boards that continue to overlook their cyber security priorities at a time when regulators are turning up the heat on cyber resilience can end up "endangering" their organisations and put shareholder value at risk, according to Athena Board. The onus ...

Disclosure of climate risks doubles in four years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The number of companies reporting on the impact of climate risks in their financial statements has more than doubled in the last four years. That's according to a review of the financial statements of the largest companies from the ASX 200, 50 listed ...

New fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Social purpose organisation Good Return has launched its second impact fund, aimed at supporting marginalised female entrepreneurs across the Asia-Pacific region. The evergreenfund is seeking to raise $10 million from Australian wholesale investors ...

Podcast: Understanding climate reporting

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
In this episode of The Greener Way, host Michelle Baltazar, director of media at FS Sustainability, discusses the newly implemented climate-related financial disclosure standards in Australia with Nicholas Guest, co-lead of HLB Mann Judd's Sustainability ...

WFH costs 5.8% of employees' salary: CEDA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Employees who work from home (WFH) earn 5.8% less compared to those who do not, new modelling from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) shows, calculating to be a $4400 hole in their average annual pay. The research sought to estimate ...

Major instos, family offices headline Impact Investment Summit

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The 2025 Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific is set to be the biggest ever, featuring heavyweights from Macquarie Group, such as Viktor Shvets and former chief executive Nicholas Moore, set to headline this year's event that focuses on scaling investments ...