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Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Converters, Money3 and Flexigroup. The report, written by Sandra McCullagh and Chris Parks, explores the disclosure and lending policy issues that Walsh and fellow stakeholders raise, and also raises concerns that Thorn Group and other goods rental businesses ...

Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Converters, Money3 and Flexigroup. The report, written by Sandra McCullagh and Chris Parks, explores disclosure and lending policy issues, how the sector targets its clientele, which can be drawn from the pool of financially excluded Australians that ...

Assessing likely process, impacts of first ERF auction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Investment Association for Australia, NZ, Singapore, Indonesia The ERF is the centrepiece of the Direct Action Plan (DAP) policy passed by Parliament in October last year. The DAP and ERF establish a baseline and credit scheme and liable entities will ...

VFMC to divest from tobacco holdings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Hospital and the University of Melbourne. ESSSuper has also included a statement on tobacco as part of its sustainability policy. "ESSSuper recognises that tobacco products have harmful effects on the health of consumers and can be lethal when used as ...

South Australia one step closer to building upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Fund. "We've been engaged with South Australia probably since 2011 [on the design of BUF], and I really commend them on the policy approach they've taken on this," Bocskay said. "It's given [South Australia] the opportunity to review what's happened ...

NSW develops first social impact investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... bringing two new social impact investment transactions to market per year as part of a ten-point social impact investment policy announced this week. Daniel Madhavan, CEO, Impact Investing Australia NSW is the first state in Australia to articulate a ...

GRI publishes linkage document for EU ESG directive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... anti-corruption and bribery. Additionally, large listed companies will be required to provide information on their diversity policy, covering age, gender, geographical diversity, and educational and professional background. Disclosures would set out ...

Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... awarded points from Australia's prestigious Group of Eight," the report said. "The former received points as its proxy voting policy online. The latter received points for incorporating climate change into its investment policy, despite a lack of clarity ...

Northern Trust to open asset management in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... fund with customised screens to exclude tobacco companies and cluster munitions manufacturers, in line with LUCRF's ESG policy and its commitments as a signatory to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, LUCRF told The Sustainability ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance, Suncorp pilot microinsurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Ed. note: updates with comment from Lisa Harrison, Suncorp Group Good Shepherd Microfinance is piloting a microinsurance policy for renters, in partnership with Suncorp. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney The pilot program began late last year ...