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Australian businesses seek positive social impact: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... what the outcome of where their capital goes." The report also found that 49% of Australian business leaders reported investing in new technologies to disrupt their market, compared with 33% globally. Additionally, 61% of executives believe they have ...

Coca Cola, WWF-Australia, farmers mark 10 years of Project Catalyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... that cane grown under centre pivot irrigation yielded a 42 tonne/hectare increase, significant enough to warrant Bugeja investing in more equipment for his property. Project Catalyst also sponsors an annual forum for participating farmers to compare ...

Ausbil Investment Management launches Active Sustainable Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... and head of equities. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, head of ESG Research, Ausbil "Rather than focusing only on growth or value investing, our investment process allows us to exploit the inefficiencies across the entire market, at all stages on the cycle and ...

Accounting for or managing: experts debate managing impact at RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... different organisations measuring impact in different ways, depending on size and mission. Alex Oppes, director, impact investing at SVA There are common starting points, such as defining the whys before the hows of measuring impact. At a breakout session ...

Impact Investing Australia to administer $7m Australian government fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
The federal government has selected Impact Investing Australia (IIA) as the administrator of the $7 million Australian Government Sector Readiness Fund (SRF) to enable social enterprises to grow their impact. IIA, a not-for-profit organisation supporting ...

BlackRock Real Assets names Charlie Reid to lead Asia-Pac renewables

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... or US$3.5 trillion - will flow into renewables by 2040 according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "In the long term, investing in renewables makes sense not only for investors but also for the communities in which we live and work, making it a genuine ...

Diverse boards can provide "profitability moat" to future returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... profitability over time is critical to achieving risk-adjusted returns," said Kathryn McDonald, head of sustainable investing, AXA IM Rosenberg Equities. While the most profitable companies in any sector "experience a decline in forward one-year profitability ...

GPIF selects S&P Down Jones Indices for ESG benchmarks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... Carbon Global Standard, S&P DJI said. "As S&P Global looks to power the markets of the future, supporting sustainable investing is at the core of our strategy," said Douglas Peterson, president and CEO of S&P Global. "Companies and institutional investors ...

Willis Towers Watson, MSCI launch Adaptive Capped ESG Universal Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... markets with a diversified portfolio that is designed to spread risk and capital more evenly between stocks, while also investing in companies with strong and improving ESG factors. "We've seen a lot of interest from clients and asset owners in managing ...

Raiz Invest launches Facebook Messenger chatbot for customers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
Raiz Invest, the mobile-first micro-investing platform, has launched a Facebook messenger chatbot to customer's experience and answer basic questions about the platform's function. George Lucas, Raiz Invest managing director The chatbot, Ashlee, allows ...