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AXA IM to launch fourth impact investing strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
AXA Investment Managers will launch its fourth private market impact investing strategy later this year, focusing on opportunities healthcare and financial inclusion of consumers in emerging markets. The private market strategy will focus on regions ...

ACCR files shareholder resolution with BHP over industry associations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... provides BHP with the ability to lead, influence and strengthen standards in relation to various issues, including workplace health and safety, environmental protection, global warming, community engagement, workforce skills and diversity, and measures ...

HESTA allocates $20 million to affordable housing development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... architecturally-designed buildings on former warehouse sites. The project is a "partnership between HESTA, the industry fund for the health and community services sector, housing organisation Nightingale Housing and Social Ventures Australia (SVA), a ...

Pengana WHEB Sustainable Investing Impact Report identifies positives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... growth potential - resource efficiency, environmental services, water management, sustainable transport, education, safety, health, well-being, and cleaner energy. "We only invest in companies which are creating the positive impact because we believe ...

Impact Investment Partners on Indigenous Infrastructure Investment Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
Impact Investment Partners has launched the Indigenous Infrastructure Investment Fund, a direct investment vehicle to fund infrastructure in Indigenous communities. Chris Croker, managing director, Impact Investment Partners The goal of the Indigenous ...

CFSGAM to divest from tobacco products across portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... "There is no shortage of credible evidence of the wide-reaching harm caused by the tobacco industry from its impacts on health through usage or via the growing and producer supply chains," CFSGAM said in a statement. "These views, as well as the activities ...

Baptist World Aid Australia rates fashion companies on human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... of production. This dropped to just 2% at raw materials, the report noted. "In terms of workers' rights, thinking about health, welfare, working conditions, the ability to organise and collectively bargain, the median was a D amongst companies surveyed," ...

GRI marks 20th anniversary of first draft guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... GRI Standards allow us to incorporate the most current thinking and set the bar across themes as diverse as occupational health and safety, human rights and water stewardship. For example, we are now working to establish a first global standard for reporting ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... that it engages with in FTAs are fellow travelers when it comes to a number key issues. The SDGs are one area, labour, health, environment and other standards and commitments to climate change, are other areas. "Australia and the EU have committed themselves ...

ACSI research outlines guidelines to assessing Modern Slavery risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... manage beyond first-tier suppliers." The report also outlined potential areas in the healthcare sector. "Most Australian health care companies source their workers and goods from Asia, where low-cost labour is widespread," the report said. "Factories ...