Customers and investors alike want companies to create a positive contribution to society, alongside profit.
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More affordable and specialist homes
More Australians will be able to access affordable housing following a $2 billion commitment from NAB which will see more homes being built across the nation.
What is shared value and how can you incorporate it?
It’s possible to make money and a difference, if your business incorporates shared value into its strategy.
Insights, Trends & Case Studies
Big thinking and investors can save the world
It’s beginning to dawn on investors – and the people for whom they invest – that they’re in a unique position to change the world, without sacrificing financial gains.
How social impact investments can help end chronic homelessness
In a Victorian first, Sacred Heart Mission and the Victorian Government recently launched the state’s first Social Impact Investment, an innovative financing structure that supports positive social change.
Finance moves a step closer to sustainable goals
A major conference of the UN Environment Finance Initiative in Australia has been told that the weight of money is driving the shift towards a more sustainable economy.
Setting a road map for sustainable finance
Globally, the finance sector is directing ever-greater amounts of capital to address social and environmental challenges. Australia has more work to do on this front.
More investment in renewable energy projects
Major Australian organisations are now directly investing in large-scale renewable energy projects through the new NAB Low Carbon Shared Portfolio, the first of its kind in Australia.
The unstoppable rise of investing with purpose
Socially responsible investing has skyrocketed in Australia over the past few years. What does it mean to invest responsibly and what is its impact?
A new age of sustainability at Australian Catholic University
The world’s first sustainability bond from a university is funding a better future for students and for vulnerable communities.
NAB’s clean energy team powers 2.1 million Australian homes
This week NAB's 100th green energy project provides funding for the Crowlands Wind Farm project in Western Victoria.
A new way to look at a tough problem
The Queensland Government’s first social bond that seeks to reduce reoffending by young people has been launched by Life Without Barriers and NAB.
Putting socially responsible investing into practice
At a basic level, SRI asset managers often adopt one of two approaches whilst for an individual investor, there are three main approaches.
What is socially responsible investing?
SRI aims to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment decisions and the industry is growing rapidly.
Interlinking expertise
Using cross-sector partnerships to connect and capture data that underpins system-wide problem solving can create better societal outcomes.
A New Architecture for Social Good
The second report in the Catalyst Insights Series, was developed following a roundtable focused on enabling the public and the private sector to work together to create better societal outcomes.
Australia’s first Sustainability Bond launched
The nation’s first Sustainability Bond demonstrates how the corporate and education sectors can partner to address pressing issues facing our society and environment.
Waste not, want not
How is biogas powering a cleaner future for farming?
Socially responsible investing in Australia
Socially responsible investing (SRI) means integrating non-financial factors – such as ethical, social or environmental concerns – into the investment process with the aim of earning both a financial return and a moral ‘return’.
Impact investing – mixing profits with purpose
Impact investing (sometimes also referred to as mission-related investing) is an investment strategy where an investor proactively makes investments that can generate both financial returns, as well as intentional social or environmental returns for the community.
Can diversity deliver? Absolutely, says Australia’s first ‘social bond’ promoting workplace gender equality
Research continues to show that companies with gender diversity in their leadership teams deliver better financial results. A new product from NAB – and Australia’s very first ‘social bond’ – allows investors to put their money where their mouth is and finally invest in gender-inclusive organisations.
Council’s green vision to deliver financial and environmental gains
Mornington Peninsula Shire is investing an estimated $9.5 million in emissions reduction projects over the next five years as part of a far-reaching plan to generate a cleaner and greener environment as well as operational savings.
Growing food from big data
How the Internet of Things will revolutionise farm productivity.
Eye in the sky
How can satellites help to combat rising global pesticide usage?
Rich Gilmore is breaking new ground in natural value
Rich Gilmore left school hoping to become a wealthy stockbroker, before a trip to an African mangrove forest opened his eyes to saving the environment. “It was a life changing experience for me to see scientists and volunteers out in the field solving other people’s problems…”
Striking a balance
How farmers, environmentalists and investors are working together to save the Murray-Darling Basin.
Super dirt
Why is sustainable soil management so vital to our survival?
The ultimate textile
Sixth-generation farmer Charles Downie has managed Glenelg Estate through a period of drought and active stock reduction, to a flourishing flock producing some of the world’s finest fleece.
The added bonus of energy-efficiency
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is working with NAB to make energy-efficient equipment more affordable. NAB’s Robert White discusses the benefits of investing in new technology.
Australia installs 2M small-scale renewable energy systems
Australians have now installed more than two million small-scale renewable energy systems, the Clean Energy Regulator has confirmed, providing a strong indication that investment in small-scale renewable energy continues to flourish in Australia.