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Creating shared value a strategic opportunity for banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... at funding impact investments, the bank is also supporting ongoing education about impact investing, including granting money from the MLC Community Development Fund to Philanthropy Australia's education program on impact investing. "Another example ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance to open SA Good Money store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
Good Shepherd Microfinance is going ahead with plans to establish a Good Money store in Adelaide to provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam ...

Push to focus on tax reform, transparency as part of G20

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... "Governments are realising that their budgets are decreasing rapidly because corporate tax receipts are going down. Huge sums of money in tax are avoided as companies transfer assets from one jurisdiction to another jurisdiction with a lower taxation ...

KPMG finds companies invest $12.2bn in social programs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... articulate intentions and outcomes, and the ability to come up with agreed KPIs and targets that all parties are willing to put money to, in terms of rewards. Do we think the model for community investment might change if this experiment works? Perhaps. ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance receives more state funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... was announced this week in the state's budget, will support for the next 12 months the continued operation of three Good Money stores in Dandenong, Collingwood and Geelong. Good Shepherd Microfinance operates three Good Money retail sites that provide ...

NAB, GS Microfinance: more needed on financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... inclusion 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 ...

IGCC: climate financing achievable, but needs policy clarity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... resulting in higher cost of capital." " The thing that we don't yet know and we need to design in terms of a response, will the money come through companies, through governments, through direct investments from institutions, and how that mix will play ...

SVA provides $800,000 financing to Indigenous company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... bedding down the contract [with Thiess] and ironing out the creases that have popped up," Doyle said. "SVA have helped us with money to carry the workforce while we wait for the company to pay - in the mining game, it's 60 days after the end of month ...

World Bank issues $300m Australian Kangaroo Green Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... and for us, it sits within our global government bond mandate.... I think it shows there's appetite from investors to put money where their mouths are when it comes to climate change and mitigation and adaptation projects, but it does need to be the ...

University of Sydney issues second impact investing report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... to do that," she noted. "They have the scope to grant and to invest from their corpus - but that is two different pots of money and two different uses of money. We are starting to see that in Australia, where some of the foundations are getting involved. ...