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Christian Super to merge with Australian Christian Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... sacrificing financial performance, with allocations towards renewable energy, clean technologies, sustainable agriculture, microfinance and microinsurance. Australian Christian Super was founded in 1994 to serve the church and not for profit community ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance receives more state funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
Good Shepherd Microfinance will receive a further AU$1.7 million in funding as part of the Victorian state budget. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney The additional funding, which was announced this week in the state's budget, will support for ...

NAB, GS Microfinance: more needed on financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... are fully or severely excluded from financial products, lending weight to the argument for greater investment in microfinance in Australia, according to Good Shepherd Microfinance. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney The annual Measuring Financial ...

J.P. Morgan, GIIN report uptick in impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... records and high-level collaboration among governments and major investment institutions." The survey found that microfinance and other financial services account for about a fifth of respondents' impact investment assets, with energy at 11% and housing ...

University of Sydney issues second impact investing report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... foundations and institutional investors have implemented impact investment strategies in sectors including "agriculture, microfinance, renewable energy, small and medium enterprises, healthcare, affordable housing and community development," and in asset ...

South Australia government to support Good Money store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
The South Australian government will support a Good Shepherd Microfinance retail site in Adelaide to provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam ...

NAB outlines goals in 2014 Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... more than 1,150 clients had participated in the money mentor program, a 39% decrease from 2012. NAB provided 5,170 microfinance loans - no interest loans (NILS) and StepUP loans - to Indigenous customers in 2013, a 2% decrease from 2012. Brennan pointed ...

Global Alliance for Banking on Values to meet in Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Melbourne next week. Damien Walsh, bankmecu managing director GABV is a global group of 25 sustainable bank, including microfinance banks in emerging markets, credit unions, community banks and sustainable banks financing social, environmental and cultural ...

Social Ventures Australia hires Jenna Palumbo for WA role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... with Social Finance, Azure Capital and KPMG Corporate Finance, as well as advisory roles with Bridges Ventures, RBS Microfinance Fund, and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Current ventures supported by SVA with operations in WA include ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance welcomes inquiry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
Good Shepherd Microfinance has said that the Financial System Inquiry is an opportunity to find new ways to enable economic participation for the one in six Australians that are financially excluded. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney One in ...