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Constructing an impact portfolio as stand-alone strategy: Nuveen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... think of impact management as being part of the investment cycle." Nuveen is a founding member of the Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN), and one of the impact portfolio team members is a former employee of the GIIN, building and managing the impact ...

Video: Ethical and Responsible Investing in the 21st Century: Don't look back now - The Highlights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... Investment, Mercer; Michelle Brisbane, CEO, Ethical Investment Services; Erin Castellas, chief impact officer, Impact Investment Group; and Michael Salvatico, executive director, ESG Research, MSCI. With major research providers integrating environmental ...

Video: Ethical and Responsible Investing in the 21st Century: Don't look back now - Full Discussion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... Investment, Mercer; Michelle Brisbane, CEO, Ethical Investment Services; Erin Castellas, chief impact officer, Impact Investment Group; and Michael Salvatico, executive director, ESG Research, MSCI. With major research providers integrating environmental ...

Insight Investment analyses ESG factors affecting sovereign credit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... stop," he said. "In particular, it's been more of a discussion around risk management and an element of positive impact investment, so a risk management discussion to date." Insight ranked countries based on their new framework - New Zealand was the ...

Impact Investing Australia to administer $7m Australian government fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... supporting the Australian Advisory Board for Impact Investing in growing the impact investing market, has managed the Impact Investment Ready Growth Grant for the past three and a half years. The Impact Investment Ready Growth Grant was initially seed ...

United Nations Development Programme launches SDG Impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... can do toward improving social and environmental issues," said Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group and The Portland Trust. "There comes a time when they can no longer talk only about making money." At current ...

Bank Australia issues $125 million sustainability bond linked to SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... proceeds to be invested on day one," Dawson said. "We are certainly looking at other areas where we might do impact investment and impact lending, should those other areas be more correct, would include those in the future. We assume we will refresh ...

Expert panel discusses growth of Australia's impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... discussed the results of Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA)'s Benchmarking Impact: Australian Impact Investment Activity and Performance Report 2018, created in partnership with the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) at Swinburne University ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... partnership with the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) at Swinburne University. Benchmarking Impact: Australian Impact Investment Activity and Performance Report 2018 presents the findings from analysis of impact investment activity and performance for ...

Giant Leap venture capital fund seeks impact businesses for investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... become Australia's first venture capital firm investing in impact businesses. The $15 million fund is owned by Impact Investment Group, and is investing in businesses that "blend financial returns with deep social and environmental impact." "The purpose ...