Vanessa Zimmerman has launched Pillar Two, a consultancy that will assist companies with human rights policy development and risk management, as well as assisting with…
Impact Investment Partners on Indigenous Infrastructure Investment Fund
Impact Investment Partners has launched the Indigenous Infrastructure Investment Fund, a direct investment vehicle to fund infrastructure in Indigenous communities. The goal of the Indigenous…
Future Super divests from companies with no women on boards
Future Super has divested from listed companies that do not have women on their boards or who have not presented plans to improve their diversity.…
Business has role to play in protecting human rights: Gillian Triggs
Australia lags Western democracies in its domestic implementation of international human rights commitments, and business plays an important role in the protection of human rights,…
NZ Super to divest from gun manufacture investments
NZ Super Fund will divest from $19 million of investments in companies involved in the manufacture of civilian automatic and semi-automatic firearms, magazines or parts…
Constructing an impact portfolio as stand-alone strategy: Nuveen
Impact investing is a stand-alone strategy to develop portfolio construction towards achieving particular environmental and social outcomes and outputs, according to Nuveen Private Markets. Rekha…
Impact Investing Australia to administer $7m Australian government fund
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…
US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres
A coalition of more than 80 US-based grassroots organisations are protesting US President Donald Trump’s policy of immigrant detention through a campaign targeting banks JP…
Konica Minolta on working towards ethical supply chain
With the recent introduction of the Modern Slavery Bill to Parliament, companies with annual turnover of $100 million are in line to report annually on…
Male carers face “career trap” for seeking flexible working: DCA
Men who want to work flexibly “face high levels of discrimination,” according to research from Diversity Council Australia (DCA). DCA has published the DCA-Suncorp Inclusion@Work…