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Gender-based strategy gives impact investing a boost

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainable change in our region and shifting the gender imbalance," he said. Susan Clear, director of social impact investing at the Macquarie Group Foundation commented that Australian financial institutions and the social sector should work together ...

Australian impact investing market nearly triples in past two years: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... the provision of access to government data, and a lack of intermediaries who can advise on and create social impact investing to stimulate market growth. "Social outcomes are more complex," Ebeling noted. "It's not that clear cut that these are basically ...

Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
A landmark Social Impact Investing Taskforce is recommending that the commonwealth government take a "coordinated and long term" approach to guide its involvement in the social impact investing market. Kylie Charlton, managing director of Australian ...

How the law can drive impact through investment: B Lab

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... Statement and the Davos Manifesto. The Australian Government has demonstrated leadership in forming the Social Impact Investing Taskforce. The Taskforce is responsible for developing a strategy to facilitate private capital investment in impact investing ...

Government to establish $1 bn National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... Earlier this year, the federal government has issued a discussion paper on their role in developing the social impact investing market. The paper solicited public consultation on three main points - the role of the Australian government, which the government ...

CEFC appoints Ian Learmonth as new chief executive officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... investment banking experience in Sydney, Hong Kong and London. Learmonth sees clear correlations between social impact investing and investing in the renewable energy/energy efficiency sphere, as both have an element of measuring impacts beyond financial ...

Government issues discussion paper on social impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
The federal government has issued a discussion paper on their role in developing the social impact investing market. Sabina Curatolo, director of government relations and policy, Impact Investing Australia The paper is soliciting public consultation ...

Family businesses using impact investment in philanthropy: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
Nearly half of family businesses globally use social impact investing as part of their philanthropy, according to a new survey from EY. EY surveyed 525 family business owners in 21 countries for Family business philanthropy - creating lasting impact ...

NSW develops first social impact investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... government. He noted that social needs differ state by state, so the NSW policy can't be a precise blueprint. "[Social impact investing] is an emerging space and states face different problems," he said. "[A]ssuming there is one single answer to it would ...

New South Wales announces first social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... to manage the risk return ratio and offer three tiers of risk, essentially. That's what we've needed in social impact investing- a tiered approach." Now that Westpac, CBA and the Benevolent Society have been tapped, the next phase of negotiations with ...
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