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University of Sydney issues second impact investing report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... medium enterprises, healthcare, affordable housing and community development," and in asset classes including "private equity, venture capital, private debt, real estate and international listed equity." Developing the impact investment market requires ...

PRI launches guide to private equity and ESG integration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... Investment (PRI) have launched a guide covering integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in private equity. Integrating ESG in private equity - a guide for general partners is designed to give general partners a link between ...

Stewardship: the costs of developing social enterprises

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... in capacity building. This process is not unknown in the finance world - impact investing is often compared to private equity, venture capital and other unlisted asset investment vehicles in terms of the time and cost fund managers must invest to find ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... residential developments and infrastructure projects. We had one of the first, if not the first, institutional private equity funds investing in mitigation banks starting in 2008." These examples in real assets present real opportunities for long term ...

Northern Trust: investor call for ESG data in private equity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are refining their limited partnership agreements prior to investing in unlisted private equity funds to reflect environmental, social and governance exclusions and considerations, according to Paul Finlayson, senior vice president ...

LGS invests in US$250 million EBRD green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... are in responsible investment strategies across Australian and international equities, property, absolute return, private equity and sovereign bonds. Last year, LGS awarded its nearly AU$170 million government bonds mandate to specialist investment manager ...

PRI launches new reporting framework for signatories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... signatories about policies and practices in asset class-specific modules covering listed equities, fixed income, private equity, property, infrastructure, and inclusive finance. PRI said an average signatory will need to complete five modules and 75 ...

Foresters Community Finance funding for early stage ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... will make as they reach for the future.... It will resemble the sorts of things that people talk about in quasi-private equity models - we might not take a seat on the board, but we might put a key person clause in the agreement because we're sure this ...

AXA IM: impact investing to drive growth in ESG strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... compared the potential momentum of impact investing to the growth and expansion of alternative assets - particularly private equity and hedge funds - in the institutional investment sphere. He cited the growth of initiatives to enhance credibility and ...

Asset owners, managers see climate change as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... the last year, to assess investment manager products for our implemented solutions and have really dug into the private equity and infrastructure asset classes, for example. There are investment products that are institutional-level investments that ...