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NAB launches Impact Investment Grant Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... NAB has held information sessions on impact investment and the grants program in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney over the past month, and more than 400 people government, the not-for-profit sector and social enterprises attended the sessions ...

Future Super founders to launch Future Home Loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... financial backers of the fund as well. Future Super's trustee is the Trust Company, and the fund's assets are managed by Sydney boutique fund manager Grosvenor Pirie. Sheikh is the fund's managing director, while Verwey is executive director. The executive ...

Westpac commits to recruiting 400 Indigenous university interns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... legal and secretariat, human resources and communication, project development and financial markets, in Perth, Darwin and Sydney. Of those 45, three CareerTracker interns that have graduated from university have taken permanent roles within the banking ...

Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... continents, including 37 in Australia. Only three universities in Australia - Charles Sturt University, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University - received D ratings, whilst the remaining 34 received X ratings, "indicating that ...

CBRE commits to increasing green space in Australia, NZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... New Zealand, said Amanda Steele, head of sustainability, CBRE Pacific. "We've expanded it already, rolled it out in the Sydney office," Steele said. "I work in the Sydney office, and I enjoy it. A lot of our clients have commented on it as well." Thus ...

Financial System Inquiry recommends on impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... to encourage further impact investing - was pushed off to a taxation white paper process. Last year, the University of Sydney published two reports - Impact Investment: Perspectives for Australian Superannuation Funds and Impact Investments: Perspectives ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... housing finance deal, providing AU$61 million in debt finance to SGCH for the construction of 275 new dwellings in the Sydney metropolitan region. SGCH is one of the largest community housing providers in Australia and houses over 8,000 people in 4,300 ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... their portfolio, their governance structure and their legal responsibilities, panelists told the standing-room crowd in Sydney. Superannuation fund trustees have a legal responsibility to exercise care, skill and diligence in relation to all matters ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... financial backers of the fund as well. Future Super's trustee is the Trust Company, and the fund's assets are managed by Sydney boutique fund manager Grosvenor Pirie. Sheikh is the fund's managing director, while Verwey is executive director. The executive ...

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... coincidence that our portfolio is clustered, geographically. We have three loans out in Cairns, two in Brisbane, three in Sydney, and two in Tasmania. We are seeing clustering, partly because of the economics, but also because you're getting into the ...