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Mirvac reports on first year of new sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... general manager sustainability, Mirvac Mirvac recently reported on its 2013/2014 performance, which included an operating profit of AU$437.8 million, a 16% increase on the previous year's result. This operating profit is 11.9 cents per stapled security. ...

Mutuals, co-ops have turnover of $104 billion: BCCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Australian grain handler CBH Group (AU$2.8 billion) and Victorian dairy operator Murray Goulburn, AU$2.39 billion. Non-profit health funds HCF, AU$2.13 billion and HBF AU$1.27 billion were number 3 and 4 on the BCCM Top 100 list. "Co-operatives and member ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... emissions as part of its 2014 sustainability report. Siobhan Toohill, Westpac The group reported a 12% increase in net profit to AU$7.561 billion for the 12 months to 30 September 2014, cash earnings per share of 245 cents, up 8% and cash earnings of ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
It was the Romans who said pecunia non olet, but from an ethical investment perspective, that no longer holds true. Ethical cash management has emerged as an issue in the push for institutional investors to divest from assets that are carbon emissions-intensive ...

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Australia citing fracking, corporate tax minimisation, fast food retailing, and poker machine business as issues where profit-maximisation runs into community interests. Among the proposals in the paper is the option of amending Australia's Corporations ...

Impact Investing Australia hires Daniel Madhavan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... cross-sectoral team as we work to build the market for impact investing in Australia." Impact Investing Australia is a not-for-profit established earlier this year to provide leadership, demonstrate demand, and remove barriers to the impact investing ...

CDP recognise ASX companies for climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
Six Australian companies have been named to CDP's Climate Performance Leadership Index 2014. CDP selected 187 companies globally that exhibit leadership through action to mitigate climate change, and found that as an index, those companies outperform ...

VicSuper publishes first G4, Integrated Reporting annual review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... report using both Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) G4 and the Integrated Reporting guidelines. VicSuper, a public not-for-profit superannuation fund, reported assets of more than AU$13 billion and 240,000 members in this year's annual report. The ...

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... and temporary accommodation for carers and people living with mental illness. "Central Coast ARAFMI is another not for profit, and again, like King Street Haven, there's a strong degree of community support and a strong, mission-driven staff," Gales ...

SuperMIND calculates costs of mental illness, suicide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... industry superannuation fund and their insurers more than AU$200 million between 2007-2011,according to SuperFriend, a not-for-profit mental health foundation. Shane Fielding, principal of group risk at IFS Insurance Solutions Improving support for mental ...