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Accounting for or managing: experts debate managing impact at RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... million policy premiums into socially progressive projects in Australia. QBE is looking towards areas such as affordable housing, renewable energy and healthcare. "For us in the Premiums4Good portfolio, it's fair to say that the investments in terms ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... debt financing for two for-profit prison companies - Core Civic and GEO Group - that operate immigrant detention centres housing people Core Civic and GEO Group are flagged under MSCI's research system for social concerns, said Meggin Thwing Eastman ...

Bank Australia issues $125 million sustainability bond linked to SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Darren Dawson, treasurer at Bank Australia. The proceeds of the bond will be used to finance loans including community housing, specialist disability accommodation and mortgages for energy efficient homes with an added environmental offset from a conservation ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... debt financing for two for-profit prison companies - Core Civic and GEO Group - that operate immigrant detention centres housing people. For the US grassroots organisations, which have organised under the Families Belong Together umbrella, the goal of ...

Q&A: Yolanda Beattie, Mercer, talks Future IM/Pact initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... we wrap it all up in a communications strategy, and that starts with the website, so we have this website where we're housing all this content we'll grow that content over time. The second angle is social channels. So we've currently got Facebook and ...

Impact investments quadruple to $5 billion in two years: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... other markets," O'Connor noted. "By number of deals, socially focused investments outweigh by about 62%, particularly housing and local amenity." Many of the deals are flowing to the mature end of the market, with less going towards the start up or early ...

HESTA commits additional $40m to Social Impact Investment Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... Glenview - a not-for-profit aged care provider, and the Commonwealth Government. Other SVA investments include Horizon Housing, a community housing provider in Queensland that aims to increase the supply of affordable housing. There are growing opportunities ...

QBE commits minimum $100m to impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... in Australia and around the world as part of its Premiums4Good program. QBE is looking towards areas such as affordable housing, renewable energy and healthcare. QBE manages a portfolio of more than $20 billion globally, and the company's interest in ...

International Finance Corporation issues $300m Kangaroo social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... bond support projects "that provide finance to low-income people, including buying from smallholder farmers, or offering housing, education, and affordable healthcare. The funds will also be used to help lending to women-owned enterprises, and fund projects ...

Eight Investment Partners launches 8IP Australian Equity Impact Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... Equity Impact Fund in January 2017, and it is currently invested in 29 companies that fall into nine sectors - affordable housing, renewable energy, care and support, wellbeing: health care services, education, wellbeing: medical devices, energy storage ...