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SVA: Newpin social benefit bond returns 7.5% in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... UnitingCare Burnside, which operates out of four centres in Sydney's west. The program is designed to prevent children entering foster care and improve the rate of children being safely returned to their families. The bond will fund the maintenance of ...

Westpac, CBA raise $10 million for Benevolent Society SBB

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... service, which opens next week. The service will focus on reducing the number of family breakdowns and children placed in foster care in New South Wales and will support up to 400 families over five years. The five-year bond was structured in two tranches ...

NGS Super to launch stand-along SRI fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... UnitingCare Burnside, which operates out of four centres in Sydney's west. The program is designed to prevent children entering foster care and improve the rate of children being safely returned to their families. The bond will fund the maintenance of ...

AXA IM: impact investing to drive growth in ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... challenges that are costly both economically and socially - criminal recidivism, or families in which children are placed in foster care. "Social benefit bonds clearly excite people, but we are talking about intractable problems that haven't easily been ...

Deutsche Borse joins Integrated Reporting pilot programme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Deutsche Borse Group has joined the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) Pilot Programme Business Network and will become the first stock exchange to join the IIRC Pilot Programme. Paul Druckman, IIRC CEO The Pilot Programme tests the IIRC's ...

Ernst Ligteringen: G4 and the third industrial revolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... Initiative (GRI) reporting standards will improve the quality of ESG disclosures, but governments and regulators need to foster a level playing field in which at least large companies are disclosing sustainability data, said Ernst Ligteringen, GRI chief ...

Westpac, CBA, Benevolent Society launch social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... over five years. The service is aimed at reducing the number of family breakdowns and the number of children placed in foster care in NSW. The NSW government announced its intention to develop this SBB with Westpac, CBA and the Benevolent Society last ...

NGS Super allocates to NSW social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... UnitingCare Burnside, which operates out of four centres in Sydney's west. The program is designed to prevent children entering foster care and improve the rate of children being safely returned to their families. The bond will fund the maintenance of ...

Drive to push corporate communication of ESG materiality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... learn from each other and give feedback on the effectiveness of investor communication, promote a communication format to foster communication between CEO/CFO, investor relations and CSR team and with ESG specialists and financial analysts and to foster ...

More women, more new entrants appointed to ASX100 boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... were executives. "The 92 appointments involved 91 individuals (Paula Dwyer was appointed to both the Leighton Holdings and Foster's board during the sample period) and of these 91 individuals, 63 were new entrants to the top 100 director pool," the report ...