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Acacia Money hires former GetUp! CEO to exec team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
Climate tech platform Acacia Money has hired the former head of GetUp! as its new chief growth officer. Paul Oosting joins the leadership team for Acacia, a financial technology and platform business that connects people's banking, super and any investment ...

Future Home Loans to broker fossil fuel free loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... 100" had signed up using the website, said Sheikh, managing director of Future Home Loans and former national director of GetUp!. "There are a couple of things we are doing to facilitate the process for customers," Sheikh said. "We have built a partnership ...

Future Super founders to launch Future Home Loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... formerly a senior relationships manager at Australian Ethical Investment, and Simon Sheikh, former national director at GetUp!. Bendigo Bank is a shareholder in the company, and Simon Holmes a Court one of the financial backers of the fund as well. Future ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... formerly a senior relationships manager at Australian Ethical Investment, and Simon Sheikh, former national director at GetUp!. Future Super has one fund option - a balanced growth fund with a 70/30 split between growth assets and income assets. Within ...

Future Super launches as first fossil-fuel free fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... formerly a senior relationships manager at Australian Ethical Investment, and Simon Sheikh, former national director at GetUp!. Verway Sheikh met whilst campaigning as Green Party candidates in ACT at the last election, Verway said. Post-election, both ...

ASIC guide widens scope of risk, future prospect disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... rubber hits the road and where you can affect some change. You see that in these shareholder resolutions - the Woolworths GetUp! campaign, and the current Santos and Wilderness Society campaign. In terms of shareholder activism, that's where they're ...

NGOs, institutional investors seeking engagement pathways

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... issues aren't the only subjects of engagement for institutional investors. Last year, grassroots community organisation GetUp! orchestrated the push for an extraordinary general meeting to put a motion to retailer Woolworths Limited to put $1 maximum ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... average $55,000 profit a year (more on that later), so the impact of the $13, on either revenue or awareness, is minimal. The GetUp! Campaign to set limits on the Woolworths machines failed for being too ambitious - policy changes are one thing, constitutional ...

Woolworths poker machine vote fails, but push to continue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... to vote on a social issue that impacts on Woolworths' reputation and its bottom line. Grassroots community organisation GetUp orchestrated the push for an EGM. To bring an EGM, there must be a call from 100 shareholders or 5% of the total number of shareholders ...

Boards increasing engagement on remuneration reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... November. At the EGM, shareholders will vote on a motion demanding the company limit the poker machines they own to AU$1 bets. GetUp, the activist group behind the campaign to curb gambling, will turn its attention to persuading investors to back the ...
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