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Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
A coalition of investors and other stakeholders are planning to engage with ASX-listed payday lenders and goods rental companies in a campaign to improve their lending policies to financially vulnerable Australians. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ...

Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... a loan at midnight, it's not approved until after a cooling-off period." Good Shepherd Microfinance operates three Good Money retail sites in Victoria that provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB on "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... "Among the reasons our members join Teachers Mutual Bank is because they support the way we do business and they want their money to help create positive change in the community". See Also: Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB, Westpac top "most ethical" list Investors ...

Ethical Advisers' Co-operative AUM reach nearly $1 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Investment Advisers, Tas Ethical, Ethical Investment Services, and Guidance Financial Services. Investors are putting new money into a variety of diverse ethically screened products, but superannuation and direct investments are growing in importance ...

AXA IM ESG SmartBeta fund 5% stronger than benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... SmartBeta Equity Fund as part of a more general report on AXA IM's global performance for 2014. AXA IM globally reported net new money inflows of AU$27 billion. AXA IM's assets under management (AuM) at the end of December 2014 were AU$891 billion, up ...

VFMC to divest from tobacco holdings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... be lethal when used as intended," the super fund said. "ESSSuper Accumulation Fund will require any parties, which manage money on its behalf via mandates, to expressly prohibit investment in primary producers of tobacco products." ESSSuper also noted ...

Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... which are leading the best research into the risks of climate change are failing to at the very least demonstrate that the money that sustains them is being managed in any way to account for those risks or the risks of technology and politics dealing ...

Good Super appoints Andrew MacLeod as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... superannuation," MacLeod said. "If I overgeneralise for a moment, superannuation as an industry is lazy. They take 1.5% fees, chunk the money in an index tracking fund and we're done. We'd like to refocus that and say, if we can give you industry-standard ...

The Global Impact Investment Network Appoints new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... investments, and provide the market intelligence and resources that will help investors make the greatest impact with their money." Bouri succeeds former CEO Luther M. Ragin Jr, who stepped down at the end of 2014. Bouri holds an MBA from Northwestern ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance, Suncorp pilot microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Shepherd Microfinance's existing financial services products. In Victoria, Good Shepherd Microfinance operates three Good Money retail sites that provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded ...