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Good Shepherd Microfinance to open SA Good Money store

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... or 3.1 million adult Australians, is financially excluded and unable to access a bank account, small credit or insurance policy, Good Shepherd Microfinance has said. Good Shepherd Microfinance's provider network includes 246 community organisations across ...

ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... recommends that investors understand the potential loss of value from poorly negotiated underwriting agreements and develop a policy on capital raisings as well as query board oversight of the process. The report also recommends that rule makers such ...

Mercer hires Alexis Cheang to Responsible Investment team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... of Mercer's responsible investments for Asia Pacific. "In light of new industry requirements to publish a proxy voting policy and disclose voting results, Alexis will also add her expertise to our advisory work on governance, voting and engagement. Alexis' ...

CFI a source of economic opportunity for Indigenous groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... methodologies in different places that can suit the traditional owners." The coalition government's major climate change policy initiative is the repeal of the current carbon pricing mechanism and the establishment of the DAP. The DAP's major vehicle ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... practitioners at the coal face are frustrated with the slow pace of change, the lack of leadership at the top and the public policy environment," said Leeora Black, ACCSR managing director. This year's review coincides with ACCSR's ten-year anniversary ...

AMP Capital lists fossil fuel exclusions for RIL funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... quantitative, value, international equities, etc. What AMP Capital have done is either engage with companies or contributed to a policy discussion, for example through our participation in the Investor Group on Climate Change, to manage that governance ...

Westpac reports progress on sustainability targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... risk framework. "We have an ESG risk framework that very much guides our decision making and in particular our credit risk policy across the bank, and our positions around who we lend to, the types fo project we lend to," Toohill said. "We evolve those ...

LUCRF selects Northern Trust for ESG-screened mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014  |  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, said Roger McIntosh ...

UCA Funds Management names fossil fuel exclusion stocks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... the listed companies that it will exclude from future equities investments, based on its recently announced fossil fuel policy. Michael Walsh, UCA Funds Management CEO Earlier this year, UCA Fund Management announced its fossil fuel policy, which stipulates ...

ASX companies lag global peers in disclosing water risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... questionnaire, and that more companies are engaging with supply chain. Of the 23 companies that disclosed, 91% have a water policy, strategy or plan, and rates of board level oversight of those plans exceeded Global 500 respondents - 78% of ASX respondents ...