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Investors call for affordable housing bonds, aggregating body

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... aggregators to issue bonds to finance large scale affordable housing projects. Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing, Social Ventures Australia In January, the federal government established an Affordable Housing Working Group to investigate ...

Mirvac launches social return on investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Sarah Breavington, Mirvac sustainability director. "Secondly, it's giving us a better understanding around what we're investing in, and the output we're creating. It's insightful for us to see where some of the gaps are. If I take active communities ...

Australian Ethical hires equities analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... and delivers strong returns for investors," Williams said. "Australian Ethical is the leader in the Australian ethical investing sector and I look forward to using my skills to help it to continue to deliver excellent results for its investors and sh ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... The development of metrics to measure and report on social impacts is an issue of some preoccupation in the impacting investing sector and more broadly for a number of reasons. While it is possible to report financial returns of impact investing, systems ...

Cities provide essential collaboration: C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
Big cities' governments around the world are investing and collaborating on climate change related issues as a way of making their cities more attractive places for people to live, according to Mark Watts, executive director, C40 Cities Climate Leadership ...

Q&A: Madeleine Senior, Bert Rebelo, Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... now the ideas have been taken on. We're really excited about the product and the integration of ESG with other factor investing strategies. We are also expanding the team with hires, and we building our knowledge and expertise around, supported by MSCI ...

Impact Investing Australia launches inaugural Australian survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... and investors allocate towards impact areas related to children and young people and clean energy, according to Impact Investing Australia's inaugural impact investment survey. Rosemary Addis, chair of the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing ...

RIAA certifies three super funds as responsible investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... pleased to receive this independent recognition of Local Government Super's leadership in sustainable and responsible investing," said Peter Lambert, LGS CEO. "It also endorses our commitment to superior environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance ...

Australian Ethical FUM AU$1.4bn for second half of 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... returns and strong investment inflows, noted Phil Vernon, managing director. "We see this result as proving that ethical investing is coming of age," he said. "The results are driven by three main things. One is continuing proof that there is a real ...

Impact Investing Australia launches guide to define social costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
Deloitte Access Economics in association with the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing have developed a guide to help the social services sector to define and understand the costs of social services. Rosemary Addis, chair of the Australian ...