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Credit strategy links financial return to social, environmental impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation, a federal government corporate agency (NHFIC) providing funding for community housing projects. "We have begun a dialogue with the NHFIC team to really understand and follow the capital to see the ...

WBCSD survey to chart stakeholder engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... they can improve their engagement and relationships with stakeholders. "I think there's an appetite in the business community to be more accountable and transparent in risk areas going forward, and what they need are the signals from employees, investors ...

Link between post-bushfire regeneration and impact investing: WWF-Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... organisation that prioritises innovation, dreaming big, and finding solutions that work for people and nature, we are seeking community-led solutions to drive impact investment." The Innovate to Regenerate Challenges will have a pool of $3 million in ...

Impact Investment Group names head of investor relations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... for IIG and the whole impact investing industry," said Daniel Madhavan, IIG CEO. "Since 2014, she's brought to IIG's community her exceptional knowledge of the sector, her deep care for clients, her commitment to benefiting people and the planet, and ...

Bank, state government become first buyers of Reef Credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... including significant support from the Queensland government, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, the academic research community and the not for profit sector," Schultz said. Schultz noted that the investment required to meet water quality targets for ...

Medibank issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... their activities to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Medibank identified customer health, employee health, community health, environmental health and governance as their material topics. The COVID-19 pandemic response impacted each of those ...

Positive outlook for impact future: Conscious Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Management, Tominc said. Another area of investment priority for the fund is environmental infrastructure, including community rooftop solar. Demand for rooftop solar remains strong, Tominc said. Social and disability housing remains an attractive area ...

Retail sustainable investments grow by 21%: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... "We're certainly seeing the demand for ESG and investing become more broad-based and we're hearing that from our adviser community," said Jamie Wickham, managing director of Morningstar Australasia, at a briefing on the report with colleagues at a recent ...

The intersection of conduct culture and company value

SUSHEELA PERES DA COSTA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... 2018 Overview The ethical conduct, trustworthiness and 'social licence to operate' of a company matter to the community and consumers, especially in a post-GFC world. But what about shareholders? They want their investments to perform financially ...

BlackRock details engagement activity in stewardship report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Davila noted that it can apply equally to human capital management and aligning employee roles and culture issues, to community expectations as well. "One of the really interesting things about this concept of purpose is that it provides a language for ...