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ANZ a leader in financial inclusion, with scope to expand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Consulting Group to perform the review. The review looked at the bank's strategy and reviewed four programs - MoneyMinded, Money Business, Saver Plus and Progress Loans and determined that the first three have performed well against the bank's strategy ...

Shareholders to face activist lobbying on Woolworths vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... reputational risk. "I think [Woolworths] do have to be more transparent," Wilson said. "Besides being just companies and money making enterprises, they have a responsibility to the community. The actions that they're taking that could be harmful, they ...

Investor Profile: Five Oceans Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... company in 2005. Culturally, we felt it was an area we wanted to emphasise in terms of positioning and how we would manage money for institutions. It was a conscious decision, but I would go back to Kim's point about how we manage ESG in a commercial ...

SEFA selects Queensland social enterprise for first loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... former tourism business and turn it into low-cost accommodation service for people coming to Cairns for health services. The money will go towards the purchase and refurbishment of the site. SEFA structured the arrangement with Three Sistas as a "longer ...

AGL Energy, First Solar granted $130m for solar project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... homes. The Solar Flagships Council found the AGL project had the overall highest level of merit and represented value-for-money, low risk and high commercial viability, said Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson. The Solar Flagships Council ...

Investor Profile: Omega Global Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... went to the financing the change of the diesel busses. Where that's good as a green bond investor is that you're lending money to the World Bank - it's AAA rated, it's backed by governments, they have their own balance sheet, they have good governance ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... can direct attention into certified green products. It's as much about transparency as anything else. You know where your money goes." Because the mandate is constructed to reduce risks from ESG signals and to take advantage of opportunities based on ...

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... excluded people in Victoria. The initiative will provide access to no-interest loans, which will be administered by Good Money, and StepUP low-interest loans, with an interest rate of 3.99%, which are administered by NAB. "At the end of the day, banks ...

Disruptive innovation, ESG factors pose media sector risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... transition phase -they are going from traditional media to new media," Carlsson-Sweeny said. "Companies are struggling to make money from digital media. They're all trying to adjust to the new alignment. It's hard to make money from social media. It's ...

Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... customers to help them with tenders. There are compliance reasons, there are costs reasons -companies simply want to save money by being more efficient, and the fourth thing is that there are businesses that want to do the right thing and save the planet. ...