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QBE commits minimum $100m to impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... portion of investment funds derived from the Premiums4Good, social and environmental impact investments potentially have a different asset exposure and profile that may lead to risk or return diversification. "There is potential that they would operate/perform ...

ASX adds social license to operate, TCFD to corporate governance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... greater guidance on the disclosure of climate change risk (also referred to as "carbon risk"), including: explaining the different types of climate change risk (physical risks, transition risks and liability risks); noting that many listed entities will ...

Australian Ethical Investment opens 2018 community grants program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... working with 12 to 18 months ago are now ready to move into the business incubator. Out of this incubator, we have had different business ventures develop, from food trucks to an Iranian travel company. These are people who couldn't even get employment ...

Pollinate Energy merges with US-based Empower Generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... organisations are selling their merged product lines in both countries where applicable, McGregor said. "Empower Generation uses different products because looking at rural families and providing agricultural products," she said. "We can very quickly ...

Future of mobility requires key action by business, policy makers: SBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... have to be new ways and new ideas of business delivering what has been delivered in a 20 th century model that are very different in a 21 st century model." The challenges to business are not just the physical, but related to human capital, Petersen ...

SSGA launches State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... have a look at the asset stewardship, the exposure to carbon is not the only thing we look at. We look at a range of different ESG themes. You'd know about gender diversity goals that we're trying to get companies to adhere to, it's just one of the areas ...

Diversity Council Australia discusses myths around workplace flexibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... enabling employees to enter, exit, and re-enter workforce, or increase or decrease their workload or career pace at different life stages. 6. Flexible workers are less ambitious Flexibility boosts workers' career ambition as research shows that employees' ...

Protecting impact from Greenwash - Duncan Paterson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... in the last few years, however, as service providers work to aggregate and package impact investments in a range of different ways, and much larger scale investment opportunities arise, particularly in areas traditionally serviced by the public sector. ...

Exploring the risks, impacts of future of work on investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... contingent workforce may offer greater recruitment flexibility for companies, but will require them to adapt to the different risks of dealing with a contingent work force. " The Morgan Stanley report cited an EY study that found that "87% of full time ...

International Finance Corporation issues $300m Kangaroo social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... additional funding for development." IFC has issued a total of eight social bonds in public and private markets across four different currencies, amounting to a total volume of US$667 million. The IFC also noted that their Banking on Women and Inclusive ...