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Government allocates additional funds for microfinance pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... carry out a pilot. The organisations raised a further AU$3 million for the loan capital from philanthropic and private investment. "Ensuring Australians have appropriate options for affordable access to credit, alongside credit reform, is an important ...

Australian Ethical appoints Kate Greenhill to board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Australian Ethical Investment has appointed Kate Greenhill FCA to the board as a non-executive director. Greenhill has more than 18 years' experience in assurance and advisory services in the financial services industry. She is a former partner with ...

Colonial First State GAM to drive further ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... on a new three-year strategy to further drive integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) into their investment process and wider business. Will Oulton CFSGAM, known as First State Investments outside of Australia/New Zealand, manages US$160 ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... and portfolio managers that you can treat the ESG ratings data in as sophisticated a way as you can treat any other investment analysis factor," said Michael Salvatico, Vice President at MSCI ESG Research in Sydney. "This is bringing the ESG ratings ...

Low Carbon Australia finances Warrnambool lighting project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Low Carbon Australia (LCAL) will partly finance an energy efficient street lighting project in Victoria that will cut energy use and costs in six councils. LCAL will provide slightly more than 50% of the Warrnambool City Council's AU$872,500 commitment ...

AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has developed a strategy that applies environmental, social and governance metrics to assess countries' creditworthiness and risks and opportunities in sovereign debt portfolios. Matt Christensen The approach is outlined ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... support IFC climate-friendly projects in developing countries. It was principally allocated to socially responsible investment portfolios and was heavily oversubscribed, IFC said. "We're actively trying to make our government bond portfolio look more ...

ACCSR reports on state of corporate social responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... leadership, however, the most commonly cited example of CSR leadership - cited by 26% of respondents - related to community investment, volunteering and philanthropy. The second highest response, at 22%, was the development of a flagship sustainability ...

Perpetual hires philanthropic services manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Perpetual has hired Caitriona Fay as philanthropic services manager for Perpetual Private, its wealth advice arm. Fay comes to Perpetual from The Ian Potter Foundation, where she was senior program manager. She is a member of the Leading Learning in ...

Banco Fie joins Global Alliance for Banking on Values

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
Banco Fie, a Bolivian grass-roots microfinance institution, is the 22 nd values-based bank to join the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV). GABV is an organization of sustainable banks from around the world, including microfinance banks in ...