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Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... has bought a former tourism business and turned it into low-cost accommodation service for people coming to Cairns for health services, as well as crisis accommodation for the homeless. The money has gone towards the purchase and refurbishment of the ...

ACSI criticises slow pace of women appointed to ASX boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... ASX200 has nearly double the number of companies with no women or just one woman on the board. ACSI also found that the health care sector has the lowest average number of women directors - an average of less than 10% women "in an industry where 70% ...

Future Fund excludes tobacco producers from portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... 0.3% of the value of the Future Fund. "The board noted tobacco's very particular characteristics including its damaging health effects, addictive properties and that there is no safe level of consumption," said David Gonski, board chairman, in a statement. ...

AXA IM brings ESG metrics to fixed income portfolio analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... measure of education as an average length of schooling and he expected length of schooling based on enrollments by age; health as measured by life expectancy at birth, and standard of living calculated as gross income per capita corrected for purchasing ...

ACCSR conference tackles practice of responsible leadership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... circle-shaped diagram that put the customer in the circle. Chapman and Marshall both spoke to initiatives addressing employee health - Chapman of Xtrata, which has mining operations in South Africa, pointed to an HIV/AIDS health initiative. Chapman said ...

Resource constraints could render pension funds insolvent

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Pension schemes could potentially become insolvent within 35 years if future global economic growth is hindered by resource constraints and increasing costs from environmental pressures, according to new research from the British Institute and Faculty ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... BlackRock, is making an assessment of factors with respect to debt sustainability: willingness to pay, financial sector health, external finance position within the countries. An increasing number of emerging markets have economies that are being more ...

Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... has bought a former tourism business and turned it into low-cost accommodation service for people coming to Cairns for health services, as well as crisis accommodation for the homeless. The money has gone towards the purchase and refurbishment of the ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... all, Woolworths' approach to the risks of problem gambling by its customers lies in stark contrast to how companies manage health and safety risks in the workplace, for example. The measures are to train staff, make machines less visible, support counselling ...

Investment in programs for Aboriginal women and girls needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... look at studies from the WHO and the OECD, what they've found is that if you invest in women through programs that improve health, welfare and wellbeing, it has a multiplier effect," she said. "Where women have access to education, they have fewer and ...