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Financial System Inquiry addresses impact investment market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... the interim report did not go into detail on the barriers to developing and pointed to two reports published by the University of Sydney - Impact Investment: Perspectives for Australian Superannuation Funds and Impact Investments: Perspectives for Australian ...

University of Sydney Business School adopts CAER research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
The University of Sydney Business School will utilise CAER's environmental, social and governance research, CAER has announced. Duncan Paterson, CAER CEO The University of Sydney's Business school has taking out an ongoing subscription to the CAER service ...

University of Sydney issues second impact investing report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
A new study from the University of Sydney Business School concludes there is no legal barrier preventing trusts and foundations from pursuing impact investments, and finds that impact investing has to move past the stage of engaging with early adopters ...

Australian Ethical Investment hires head of ethics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... and head of asset securitisation at ABN AMRO Australia. Dr Palmer received his doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Sydney. "We are delighted to welcome Stuart to the team," said Phil Vernon, managing director of Australian Ethical. "Australian ...

Potential impact investment market estimated at $32 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... according to a recent report. David Rickards, Social Enterprise Finance Australia According to a report produced by the University of Sydney Business School, misperceptions that impact investments means sacrificing return, a lack of consensus on how ...

Insurer Catlin Group sponsors survey of global coral reefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... images every couple of seconds," said Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. "We're using a whole range of images to count the coral at the bottom - it's an audit of the amount of coral ...

CEFC study advocates demand management for electricity use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... Cooperative Approaches to Electricity Demand Management, was carried out by the Institute for Sustainable Futures of the University of Technology Sydney. Demand management involves assisting customers to save energy and reduce demand to defer the need ...

Graham Dooley new president of Australian Water Association

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... her two-year term as AWA president. Dooley holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Public Administration from The American University in Washington DC. He is a fellow of the Institute ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... industry by researching, writing, and participating in a variety of forums and projects, we will also be working with the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership and their new Investment Leadership Group." CFSGAM noted that their ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... strategic long-term risk despite the lack of political consensus. Andrew Hoffman, professsor of sustainable enterprise, University of Michigan Impacted by extreme weather events and guided by changing consumer demand and pressures on capital, companies ...