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RIAA: Increased public demand for responsible investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... a lot of latent demand for responsible investments and responsible investment products. This measures public demand for retail products that are responsible/ethical and what is labelled as SRI. This figure is up to AU$25 billion, or 2.3%, and that is ...

Mercer research surveys governance at superannuation funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... a small corporate fund that's run for employees of one single employer, to public offer funds that are offered by large retail institutions or even in the industry fund space."

Business begins unwinding of carbon tax arrangements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... products have direct carbon cost elements and where products are sold directly to customers than for products with wider retail distribution. "It depends on how [liable entities] have passed carbon costs through," Wilder said. "If you have sold a product ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance to open SA Good Money store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... Microfinance, working with the South Australia state government and local community groups, will establish the first Good Money retail site early in 2015, said Adam Mooney, Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO. "We are expecting early in the near year to open ...

ARENA invests in Sunverge Energy via venture capital fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund has made an AU$7.6 million investment in Sunverge Energy, a company that is developing a simple, cost-effective solar energy storage solution. Half of the investment - AU$3.8 million - has come from the Australian ...

AMP Capital assesses progress, risks in Bangladesh factories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... main organisations multi-stakeholder and legally binding Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety (the Accord), the retail-driven Alliance on Bangladesh Worker Safety (the Alliance) and the complementing Better Work Programme. The Accord has expanded ...

UCA Funds Management release 2013 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... UCA Funds Management's assets under management grew by 10% to more than AU$900 million last year and will register their retail funds as registered managed investment schemes, according to their 2013 annual report. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management ...

Labour rights, NGO activism and governance cited as ESG trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
Increased environmental and social activism by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the rising importance of human and labour rights as a social issue for companies and a divergence between considerations of governance and social and environmental ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance receives more state funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... of three Good Money stores in Dandenong, Collingwood and Geelong. Good Shepherd Microfinance operates three Good Money retail sites that provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people. ...

NAB, GS Microfinance: more needed on financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... and other programs and has reached over 125,000 people. 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 people. ...