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Aust/NZ investors committed to ESG in alt investments: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... commitment to ESG across alternative investment asset classes, and the communication with the local asset management community is of a high standard," said Helga Birgden, head of responsible investment Asia Pacific, Mercer. "I think that the discourse ...

Mirvac integrates sustainability in "place-making" thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... future of place by 2015; re-imagining resources - to be net positive by 2030; and enriching communities - "demonstrating community investment within and beyond our boundaries by 2018", according to Mirvac's sustainability report. "Essentially Mirvac ...

Increase in ASX board cultural diversity: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Cultural diversity on ASX-listed corporate boards has increased, but boardrooms do not yet reflect the broader Australian community, according to research from Diversity Council Australia (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia DCA partnered ...

Future Home Loans to broker fossil fuel free loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... fuel free lenders, including Bank of Queensland, Suncorp, ME Bank and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as well as smaller, community owned banks like Teachers Mutual Bank and Heritage Bank. Future Home Loans will reach out to the demographic groups that have ...

NAB launches Impact Investment Grant Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... National Australia Bank (NAB) has launched its AU$1 million Impact Investment Grants Program. Corinne Proske, head of community finance and development, NAB The fund will support the development of social enterprises - for-profit businesses that are ...

Teachers Mutual Bank, NAB on "most ethical" list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Recently, Teachers Mutual Bank was recognized by the London Benchmarking Group for investing 4.55% of pre-tax profits in community programs, which is 12.6 times the financial services industry average in Australia and New Zealand. "There is a growing ...

Companies, investors cite overlapping materiality: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... decent work sub-category, with society at 13% and product responsibility at 11$%. The most frequently reported issue was community, with training and education and product and service labeling also mentioned. For their part, RobecoSAM identified 13 financially ...

AMP Capital to advise GII on renewable infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... projects. Providing long-term, stable funding into this area in order to support such change also has a significant community benefit." GII's first acquisition will be an operating, 2MW solar power generation facility located in Miyazaki prefecture ...

Future Super founders to launch Future Home Loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... fuel free lenders, including Bank of Queensland, Suncorp, ME Bank and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as well as smaller, community owned banks like Teachers Mutual Bank and Heritage Bank. Future Home Loans is targeting the home loan space as a means of growing ...

Assessing likely process, impacts of first ERF auction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... the registry and can surrender them immediately." Lauber-Patterson also noted that the ERF offers opportunities for community groups and councils to participate in abatement activities, another point in favour of the new policy "The fund is there to ...