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University secures $450 million sustainability-linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for blind and visually impaired and deaf and hard of hearing children, as well as women and girls. The loan aligns to the Asia-Pacific Loan Market Association's updated 2023 Sustainability Linked Loan Principles ...

KPMG recommends gender-focused super reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... consultancy firm said the "modest measure" would be an immense boost for recipients of the Carer Payment - over 70% of them women - who provide constant care to people with disability, severe illness, or frail aged. For individuals who begin providing ...

Cleaning up diversity-washing boosts business performance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
Financy, creator of the Financy Women's Index, recently launched anti-DEI-washing app Impacter to help businesses self-assess, improve business outcomes, and move towards best practice on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The new cloud-based ...

Giant Leap completes fundraise for second impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... Australian business a lot closer to home, such as diversity. We've committed to ensuring that 55% of our portfolio consists of women-led businesses. We also continue to look at ways to improve our funds exposure to other forms of founder diversity." ...

30% women a minimum for boards under new ACSI policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
ASX-listed companies that do not have a minimum of 30% women in board positions face votes against male director re-elections as the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) updates its voting policies for members. ACSI's new voting policy ...

NHFIC to finance Build-to-Rent-to-Buy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... will provide funding for an ACT pilot program which will provide 22 affordable rental Build-to-Rent-to-Buy dwellings for women facing rental stress or at risk of homelessness. In a joint venture with the ACT Government and Community Housing Canberra ...

140 years to gender parity in finance: OMFIF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... (OMFIF) found that it will take 140 years - longer away than we are now from World War I - to achieve parity between men and women in leadership positions in the industry, based on the current rate of progress. Now in its 10th year, the report surveyed ...

Executive directors overwhelmingly male: AICD

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023  |  NEWS
A little more than 11% of ASX300 C-Suite executives are women, according to a new report from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). The latest AICD Gender Diversity Report has revealed that while the gender representation of non-executive ...

ESG goes mainstream: How the role has changed and what lies ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... remuneration report for 2022, released in January, there was found to be a "clear disparity" in pay between genders. Although women respondents were found to hold more senior roles than their male counterparts, they earned less on average. Talent Nation ...

Juicing up gender equity with Orange Bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... issuance globally has surpassed US$3 trillion, yet less than 1 percent of that amount is dedicated to bonds that empower women and girls as a priority objective. With gender lens investing gaining traction as part of overall sustainable bond issuance ...