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Pengana selects WHEB Asset Management to manage Hunter Hall Global Deep Green Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... energy efficient economies," according to Pengana. "This fund is about looking at the sustainability challenges faced by people living on the planet in the next few decades and how we can address the social challenges and environmental challenges," Myers ...

Social Ventures Australia launches $7 million Resolve Social Benefit Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... NSW Local Health Districts, Over the seven-year life of the bond, the Resolve Program aims to support approximately 530 people. The basic criteria for participation will be adults who have spent between 40 and 270 days in hospital in a 12 month period ...

VicSuper joins Financial Inclusion Action Plan program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... because we have an obligation to our members, it will also extend what we can do in the workplace, how we can reach more people through our employers, and then the broader community as well," Simpson said. "They're our key stakeholder groups. We feel ...

Pollinate Energy to open operations in fifth city - Kanpur

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
Pollinate Energy, a social enterprise that provides affordable solar lighting to people in India's urban slums, will open operations in its fifth city, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Kanpur is an industrial city of 3 million people, where over 85% of the communities ...

VicSuper launches updated Socially Conscious investment option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... severe incidents and/or controversies, or have been found to not be adhering to widely accepted global conventions. "Most people don't realise that they can make a real difference through their super," Simpson said. "VicSuper has had a long term commitment ...

Sustainable Platform assesses database of companies against SDGs, performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... development and how does its core business affect the SDGs.' When you do that you end up with a simple, fact based approach that people can understand, is transparent and that other fintechs or institutions can apply as a sustainability overlay or side ...

VicSuper affirms status as a tobacco-free superannuation fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... Dundon said. "Tobacco is a primary driver of today's dramatic rise in chronic non-communicable disease, killing 6 million people per year, a figure that is expected to rise to 8 million by 2030, Furthermore, smoking costs the global economy more than ...

Three quarters of Aussie investors use ESG in investment strategies: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... services, said David Braga, BNP Paribas Securities Services' head of Australia and New Zealand. "It's a big topic for a lot of people," he said. "Asset owners see that, at the very least, they need to have some ethical options that they can make available ...

Australasian Investor Relations Association developing ESG engagement guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... increasingly, that cohort of sell side ESG analysts and ESG managers within the fund managers and asset owners, and many IR people are not subject experts when it comes to ESG issues," Matheson said. "Our view perhaps is that the IR person should be ...

Majority of Australian participants want mandatory sustainability reporting: ACCSR survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... reliance on technology to do business. Everybody is talking about doing more with big data, selling more stuff for more people, and the social and environmental impacts. Those are the issues that companies are starting to grapple with and this is a bit ...