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Newpin Social Benefit Bond returns 12.15% in third year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... program run by UnitingCare Burnside, which operates out of five centres in Sydney and on the Central Coast in New South Wales. The program is designed to prevent children entering foster care and improve the rate of children being safely returned to ...

QIC invests $800m in Powering Australian Renewables Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... (52MW) NSW, which were commissioned in 2015. Two new "significant" wind generation projects in Queensland and New South Wales have been identified for development in 2017/2017. QIC acquired the two operating assets on behalf of the Future Fund and other ...

Victorian government chooses programs for social impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... million Benevolent Society Bond. Last week, the NSW government announced National Australia Bank will finance a New South Wales social impact investment which is not a bond to fund a program to reduce recidivism by parolees in that state. Last year ...

NAB finances third NSW social impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank will finance a New South Wales social impact investment to fund a program to reduce recidivism by parolees in that state. Daniel Madhavan, CEO, Impact Investing Australia The NSW state government issued the program, called On ...

Podcast: Australia's Affordable Housing Solution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... practitioners: Mark Peacock, director of impact investing at Social Ventures Australia. Wendy Hayhurst, CEO of the New South Wales Federation of Housing Associations. Debby Blakey, CEO of superannuation fund HESTA. Jamie Muchall, business development ...

The search for better social metrics to value affordable housing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... welfare costs. We never get to see that." Housing providers are working to remedy that. Wendy Hayhurst, CEO of the New South Wales Federation of Housing Associations said that three housing associations - North Coast Community Housing Association, Homes ...

ACCR highlights lack of transparency in political donations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... Governance Institute explained in the guide that there are different definitions for what a political donation is - in New South Wales, "a political donation includes a gift or payment made to, or for the benefit of a political party, or an elected member ...

Moree Solar Farm signs PPA with Origin Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... MW solar farm. Moree Solar Farm was developed by Fotowatio Renewable Ventures' (FRV) and is located in northern New South Wales, 10km south of Moree. MSF comprises close to 223,000 tracking solar PV modules. It is expected to produce approximately 145 ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... HESTA. Horizon Housing has properties and projects across 15 local government areas in Queensland and northern New South Wales. HESTA's Social Impact Investment Trust is managed by Social Ventures Australia (SVA). When evaluating the proposal from Horizon ...

ARENA allocates $8.4m for Normanton Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... Energy, Infigen Energy, Genex Power, Neoen Australia and others, with projects located in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. See Also: ARENA selects 22 projects for $100m funding round