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Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... their work in their communities. "[SEDIF] is an initiative with two clear objectives that we set forth - to provide more money for social enterprises at the right time to help them grow and develop their business, and more options for the way they can ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... without disclosing specific holdings, Vamos said. "The other reason to disclose is to allow members to understand where their money is and make choices," Vamos said. "Is a list of every single security the fund owns the best way to do it? No. To present ...

Share placements become governance issue for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... on investors' agendas as they engage with their invested companies on governance issues. To give scope on the amount of money companies accessed through capital raisings, approximately AU$100bn was raised S&P/ASX 200 entities in 2008 and 2009 through ...

NAB funds Melbourne building environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... the things we're working on is demonstrating more clearly to consultants and contractors how this mechanism unlocks new money to [their] customers - the building owners- by targeting tenancy upgrades as well as how building owners can upgrade their buildings." ...

Environmental Upgrade Agreements vehicle for green investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... levied on the building by the local council. The council then collects this charge and passes it back to the financier. "The money is to be mobilised towards retrofit projects that deliver environmental and social outcomes, and the city can use its ratings ...

Perpetual creating dashboard ESG reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... really need to demonstrate is part of making active decisions is caring about the future decisions companies make and putting money in successful companies," Berrutti said. "We have a role as stewards as investors. That's where the value proposition ...

Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Crafter said. "There is no standardized process or standardised labelling of green bonds, so the first step is making sure the money is quarantined such that it goes into a separate account to fund green activities, which are usually, in most cases ...

Elders reports increased lost time injury frequency rate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... more than AU$56,000 for the McGrath Foundation towards the costs of supporting rural and regional breast care nurses. This money has helped fund the first full-time McGrath Elders Breast Care Nurse. The nurse is based at the Royal Flying Doctor Service ...

Community finance draws eye of institutional investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... enterprise," Drew said. "In terms of the non-profit activities in the model, some are funded by fees, some are funded by government money and some are funded from the interest we earn from the investment in the funds. We charge a management fees for ...

Analysing the link between women directors and corporate returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... thought that if you look at the market caps, it's the bigger companies that have more women directors and they have more money and have more experience and that goes a bit to culture and also to affordability. Others say that because there is the perception ...