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Oncologist leads drive for tobacco stock divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... provide protection for consumers via tight regulation, rates of smoking will fall," she said. "Eighty-three percent of Australians choose not to smoke, and of the 17% that do, the majority regret that they started and are looking to quit. Do we need ...

RIAA: Increased public demand for responsible investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... the onus is on the superannuation fund community to understand what the public want. If that is the case that most Australians expect that their money isn't invested in assets that damage the environment or have poor social performance, wholesale investors ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance to open SA Good Money store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... Australia. We are still on track and excited and eager and putting in place operations." One in six, or 3.1 million adult Australians, is financially excluded and unable to access a bank account, small credit or insurance policy, Good Shepherd Microfinance ...

NAB, GS Microfinance: more needed on financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... low-interest loans,, which are administered by NAB. The CSI survey's conclusions reflects a slight decrease in the number of Australians that are financially excluded - last year's survey found 17.7% of all adult Australians are financially excluded. ...

IGCC launches Perfect Storm Pension Fund video project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and Mercer have produced a video training module featuring superannuation trustees and professionals acting in a trustee board meeting role-play that considers concrete steps for integrating climate change ...

SVA provides $800,000 financing to Indigenous company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... gas project cite in Queensland's Surat Basin. The contract is expected to create 80 permanent jobs for Indigenous Australians, SVA said. "There were a number of things that drew us to Iman Operations," said Mark Peacock, associate director, impact investing ...

South Australia government to support Good Money store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... Good Shepherd Microfinance to open and support a Good Money retail site in the capital city. "There are many South Australians struggling to make ends meet such as working class families who don't traditionally use welfare services," said Christine Nixon ...

NAB outlines goals in 2014 Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... business strategy approach with corporate responsibility commitments for 2014-2018. The three pillars are: helping Australians have a healthy relationship with money, cultivating prosperous communities and the bank's role in leading a future focused ...

AustralianSuper equities less carbon-intense than benchmarks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
AustralianSuper's domestic and international equities holdings are less carbon intensive than relative benchmarks, according to a carbon assessment of its total equities portfolios. AustralianSuper commissioned Trucost to undertake the carbon intensity ...

APRA: 22% of superannuation fund directors women

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... diversity on boards. The responsibility of a super fund is to manage for the future the retirement savings of working Australians. When you're looking at people's retirement futures and you consider things like the fact that women outlive men, those ...