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Social Ventures Australia hires Jenna Palumbo for WA role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Australia. Palumbo comes to SVA from Big Society Capital in London, where she was investment director. She has experience in finance and management and has worked with "a number of pioneering organisations in the impact investment space," SVA said. SVA ...

South Australia introduces building upgrade finance bill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
The government of South Australia has proposed legislation that will bring environmental upgrade finance to the state and provide a new financing vehicle for commercial developers to retrofit buildings to improve water, waste and energy efficiency. ...

Addis, Blackburn-Wright open impact investment firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... million in one-off grants that has been matched by private sector investment to establish three funds - Foresters Community Finance, SEFA and the Social Ventures Australia Impact Fund. During Blackburn-Wright's time at Westpac, she was part of the team ...

Interest spurs new developments in social enterprise funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... see how it plays out in the regulatory environment.... When it comes to the regulation of credit, the licensing of debt finance, it's pretty tight and you can argue that maybe one of the reasons why Australia survived the global financial crisis is that ...

Global banks launch voluntary Green Bond Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
Thirteen global investment banks have endorsed the Green Bond Principles - a set of voluntary guidelines on the development and issuance of green bonds. Marilyn Ceci, managing director, JPMorgan Chase corporate investment bank Bank of America Merrill ...

Climate Bonds Standard tackles low-carbon transport

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... to be made available by the first quarter of 2014. "Climate Bonds are well suited to the long term investment needed to finance low carbon transport solutions," said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds chair. "As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, large ...

Potential impact investment market estimated at $32 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... small, relative to what is needed to achieve that figure, according to a recent report. David Rickards, Social Enterprise Finance Australia According to a report produced by the University of Sydney Business School, misperceptions that impact investments ...

Climate Friendly, Corporate Carbon Advisory in CFI project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon management solutions to businesses and households, and Corporate Carbon Advisory provides advisory, origination and finance solutions for carbon management. "This is the first composting project using integrated autoclaving and enclosed composting ...

Expanded EUAs could generate $4.5bn investment in Victoria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... lot of interest in that level of projects." EUAs are agreements between a building owner, local council and financier to finance environmental retrofitting projects. Under the terms, the building owner is advanced funds for the upgrade by the financier ...

IGCC: insto investors would park capital if CEFC repealed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
Repealing the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will cause institutional investors to step back from deals in low-carbon investments in Australia, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) told a Senate inquiry into the repeal of the Clean Energy ...