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Community Sector Banking hires new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Community Sector Banking has hired Andrew Cairns as its new CEO. Cairns comes to Community Sector Banking from the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Group, where he worked for more than 15 years in roles including head - customer led connections, responsible ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... established an AU$30 million Social Impact Investment Trust and allocated AU$6.7 million of that amount to Horizon Housing, a community housing provider in Queensland. This investment will see the Trust partner with Horizon Housing to "finance the purchase ...

Social license to operate key to achieving sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... social license to operate with a stakeholder engagement strategy can be "transformative" for both the company and the community in which it operates, Boutilier said. "The power of collaboration and mutual respect is what gets unlocked," he said. "Companies ...

UCA Funds Management supports 30% women on boards target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... investors can select when they wish to make a difference. Knowing that my work on the Board ultimately supports the wider community is very satisfying." UCA Funds Management currently has approximately AU$1 billion in assets under management. It is in ...

GRI creates GOLD Community for stakeholders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched a new membership and engagement program, the GRI GOLD Community, consisting of representatives from stakeholders across business, civil society, and government. The GRI GOLD Community consists of representatives ...

CEFC finances University of Melbourne upgrades

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... finance at the CEFC. "Australia's 39 universities make a major contribution to the national economy and to the Australian community," McCartney said. "Yet they face the ongoing challenges of public budget restraint, intensifying global competition and ...

Impact Investing Australia launches guide to define social costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... very different languages, when they're talking about social impact," Pezzullo said. "There are good intention by the community sector and investors to invest in the sector and make a difference, but there is not really a consistent methodology for evaluating ...

Investor groups publish real estate climate risk guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... (ESG) and climate agendas. "The property sector has a crucial role to play in reducing global emissions and increasing community resilience to climate impacts," said Emma Herd, IGCC CEO. "Developing the investment tools to adapt existing property stock ...

CEFC launches $250m Community Housing Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has launched an AU$250 million Community Housing Program to drive construction of energy-efficient community housing. The Community Housing Program is expected to contribute to the construction of as many ...

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... he strategic question - what is the shared value to that. That applies to any number of topics - energy efficiency, community investment." With the tools available and a growing demand for companies to implement goals that are aligned to their strategy ...