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NAB, Life Without Barriers launch social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... Wadell, director of NAB's Capital Financing Solutions team This is Queensland's first SBB, and will seek to reduce recidivism by young people. The bond is arranged and managed by NAB, and will fund the establishment of Queensland's first Multi Systemic ...

SVA launches South Australian homelessness social impact bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... Australia Bank will finance a New South Wales social impact investment which is not a bond to fund a program to reduce recidivism by parolees in that state. The Victorian state government will fund programs dealing with drug and alcohol treatment and ...

Victorian government chooses programs for social impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... Australia Bank will finance a New South Wales social impact investment which is not a bond to fund a program to reduce recidivism by parolees in that state. Last year, the Queensland state government announced an allocation of AU$3 million to develop ...

NAB finances third NSW social impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank will finance a New South Wales social impact investment to fund a program to reduce recidivism by parolees in that state. Daniel Madhavan, CEO, Impact Investing Australia The NSW state government issued the program, called On ...

Q&A: Richard Brandweiner, CIO First State Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... bonds and equities will find it very challenging to form a proper assessment of the proper risk adjusted returns of a recidivism program run by a small not for profit. While that remains the case, it's hard to see how those investments make it through ...

Queensland commits $3m to social benefit bond pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... bond program will be designed with an eye to provide services to "complex social issues" - Queensland Treasury cited recidivism and homelessness in its announcement. The pilot program and readiness fund were broadly welcomed by participants in the impact ...

AXA IM: impact investing to drive growth in ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... based on the program's effectiveness in mitigating 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 ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... are some very stringent and transparent easy-to-measure measurements," Knowles said. "For example, when they look at recidivism, they look at the outcome of the court process. When they look at children in out-of-home care then being returned to the ...

New South Wales announces first social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... locations. The UnitingCare Burnside bond is for around AU$10m with a seven-year duration. A second project addressing recidivism was also given pilot status - Social Finance and Mission Australia will develop a program to assist 500 repeat offenders ...
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