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HESTA allocates $6.7m to affordable housing development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... 60 new social and affordable homes," according to 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 ...

Impact Investing Australia to develop Impact Capital Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
The impact investment sector will continue to grow in 2016, and industry participants are constructing vehicles and seeking opportunities to accelerate its development. Rosemary Addis, chair of the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing and Impact ...

CEFC receives new investment mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... consultation draft investment mandate represents an appropriate approach that allows the CEFC to support Australian government policy priorities while still allowing a measure of investment flexibility necessary to build a portfolio that in aggregate ...

ARENA allocates funds for biomass research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... significant roadblock to getting new projects off the ground." RIRDC is a statutory authority established by the Australian government that works in conjunction with industry to invest in research and development for the rural sector. For this project ...

Workplace diversity a driver of innovation: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... to Diversity Council Australia (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia Picking up on the release of the government's National Innovation and Science Agenda, DCA pressed the case for the link between diversity in the workplace and increased ...

Paris Agreement: implications for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Although Australia has signed on to the agreement, it is not expected to cause any immediate changes to the federal government's climate change policy. However, legal experts who attended COP 21 believe that the progressive nature of the agreement, the ...

Investors question payday lenders at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... requested a shorter term and paid the loan back in that shorter time." Beyond the companies' responses, Walsh said that the government needs to review the NCCP to ensure that it provides adequate protections. "I think we've achieved what we wanted to ...

Panel discussion: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... that applies to governments and that the Universal Declaration of Human rights implies that duty to protect lies with government and they rely on the rule of law to determine how human rights should manifest itself. I'm not saying I agree with that ...

Global Investors sign Paris Green Bonds Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
Institutional investors and other stakeholders have made commitments to support the further development of green bonds as part of the activity needed to achieve climate change goals arising form the Paris Climate Summit (COP21). Twenty seven global ...

Assessing net benefits of Indigenous CFI projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... sector abatement can continue to be viable if they fetch too low a price through the ERF. Complementary measures from government could be one way to make sure that land sector emissions don't get left behind." Land use and land use change, and the emissions ...