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RIAA awards Responsible Investment Certification to Mirova fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... longer-term trends already occurring in theses spaces - including further digitisation of the global economy and electronic payments." The fund focuses on long-term megatrends such as reducing carbon emissions and improving sustainability and is benchmarked ...

Emerging markets present opportunities for impact investing: 57 Stars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... intensive focus on healthcare, particularly digital health, and those will be important areas going forward. Add to that the payments and financial infrastructure, which are areas that we have been focused on and invested in across a number of geographies ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... fund transfers over five years. The statement of claim also alleges 12 customers who made large numbers of low value payments consistent with the purchase of child exploitation material going back to 2013, in South East Asia and the Philippines. The ...

Median CEO bonus payout near record high: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... shareholders $25.15 million in FY18, down from $33.63 million in FY17 - largely due to a decline in the number of termination payments from 20 to 15. ACSI noted that there are "promising trends" in executive remuneration going forward, "in the way of ...

Low Carbon Readiness Index measures motivation to reduce carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... energy efficient appliances, efficient temperature system, efficient car, temperature curtailment and green travel and payments,. They found that people were higher on the LCRI were more likely to have greater activity in each of the behaviour types. ...

Persistent and increasing bonus pay pushes up ASX100 remuneration: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
Chief executive remuneration continues to rise, pushed by "persistent and increasing bonus payments", according to the latest analysis of CEO pay by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO Don Meij, the CEO ...

HESTA commits additional $40m to Social Impact Investment Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... manager unlisted assets. "They're all loans, and some have been fully drawn, others undrawn. We're receiving interest payments when they're due, as well as principal drawdown. The portfolio is performing to expectation. The other aspect of the trust ...

Thorn agrees to ASIC undertaking for refunds, write-offs for goods leases

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... refunds to customers and write-offs of default fees, plus an additional $13.8 million in customer refunds of excess lease payments. ASIC lodged the undertaking against Thorn because it determined that Thorn contravened responsible lending obligations ...

Increasing financial inclusion could yield increasing revenue to banks: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... endangering their future growth story because these are the customers of the future." EY notes that mobile adoption and e-payments, national digital identity systems, open access to digital data and currency digitization are all "crucial technology considerations ...

Transparency around tax payments continues to be issue: CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
Disclosure and transparency about tax payments continues to be an issue for global companies, as witnessed by this week's release of the Paradise Papers. The Paradise Papers investigation has sparked a renewed discussion of tax payments and tax minimisation ...