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Newpin social benefit bond returns 8.9% in second year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... established an Office of Social Impact Investment, a joint initiative of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet and the NSW Treasury. "New South Wales has undertaken to complete two transactions per year for the next four years, and I think what they've ...

Governance Institute appoints Steven Burrell as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... won both a Walkley Award and Pan Asian Journalist of the Year Award. He has also been a policy adviser at the federal Treasury and trained as an economist at the University of Sydney, the Governance Institute said. "My primary aims are to ensure that ...

Queensland commits $3m to social benefit bond pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... pilot social benefit bond program in its budget this week. Daniel Madhavan, CEO, Impact Investing Australia Queensland Treasury will be allocated AU$2 million over two years to implement the social benefit bond pilot program, and AU$1 million will go ...

Northern Trust opens Australia/NZ asset management office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... more than AU$200 billion in assets and is the custodian for asset owners including the Future Fund, CSC, QIC, IAG, ACT Treasury and Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme (EISS). The asset management business will look to leverage the existing relationships ...

INCR working group calls for green bond definitions, framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... decide that it meets the cost/benefit test," Davis told The Sustainability Report. "This means that people in corporate treasury, the CFO, the sustainability folks have to sit down and identify if they have enough projects that meet the quality standards ...

NSW develops first social impact investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... established an Office of Social Impact Investment, a joint initiative of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet and the NSW Treasury. The policy was hailed by Impact Investing Australia, who said that the announcement positions NSW to be a "global ...

Northern Trust to open asset management in Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... more than AU$200 billion in assets and is the custodian for asset owners including the Future Fund, CSC, QIC, IAG, ACT Treasury and Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme (EISS). "Whilst asset servicing has been the lead business for us in Australia ...

LGS hires Scott Armstrong as property portfolio manager

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... management. Prior to coming to LGS, he was portfolio manager of direct property for Uniting Financial Services (UFS), the $1b treasury and investment arm of the Uniting Church in Australia. In this role, he managed a AU$260 million direct property portfolio ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... modelling from the CSIRO and the Victoria University Centre for Policy Studies, using the same tools as previous analyses by Treasury and the Garnaut Review. ClimateWorks and ANU established three scenarios for near-zero carbon electricity, said Amandine ...

UCA Funds Management appoint independent directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... and finance director with more than 22 years' experience in senior roles in law firms, financial services and corporate treasury operations in Australia, the UK, Canada and the US. Since 2002, she has also held a number of directorships and is currently ...