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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... 2017, RIAA said. The 51 products have a total value of $5.8 billion (up from $1.2 billion at 30 June 2015). "Impact investing has left its infant state and is emerging as much more mature and diverse part of the financial markets," said Simon O'Conor ...

HESTA commits additional $40m to Social Impact Investment Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... Trust (SIIT), more than doubling its investment in the social impact vehicle. Michael Lynch, Executive Director, Impact Investing, SVA. Managed by Social Ventures Australia (SVA), the SIIT was launched in 2015 with an initial commitment of $30 million. ...

Hedge funds allocate at least US$59bn to responsible investment: AIMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... 37.5% of responses, with negative screening at 17.5%, direct engagement with companies on ESG issues at 5% and impact investing at 45%. Around 80% of firms with $1 billion or more in hedge fund assets reported an increase in their responsible investment ...

QBE commits minimum $100m to impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
Insurer QBE has committed a minimum $100 million towards impact investing this year as part of a global-first initiative. Phil White, QBE CEO Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) and ANZO Premiums4Good Champion QBE has committed to investing a proportion ...

Victoria to pilot investment plan, test Community Futures Investment Model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... investors. "We are trying to address the major impediment that impact investment has had - scale," Noble said. "Impact investing hasn't been able to access scale. The pilot is intended to get projects off the ground that would otherwise not be able to ...

Nanuk Asset Management explores themes underpinning New World Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... Compact - we're all coming together now to say, what can we do with this, what is the next step. It's not yet impact investing, but raising the awareness and the policy goals to, again, getting asset managers and owners to think about this." The Nanuk ...

Responsible investment to become "the new normal": AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... Matt Christensen, AXA IM's global head of responsible investment, gave an update on responsible investment and impact investing as a way to reorient towards sustainable and inclusive growth. Worldwide, responsible investment is undergoing an evolution ...

ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... broad framework and the ESG approach, we are actively looking in some of our strategies in terms of positive impact investing," Murphy said. "We approach it from the best practice, perspective, which measure should we use, what is the best price for ...

Protecting impact from Greenwash - Duncan Paterson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... at that time. It can be difficult to come up with a hard-and-fast definition for impact investment. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) offers the clearest approach, identifying three key characteristics for impact investments: Intentionality ...

Eight Investment Partners launches 8IP Australian Equity Impact Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... million for institutions, retail and high net worth individuals, but the Impact Fund is its first foray into impact investing. The Impact Fund currently has around $2.5 million in assets under management, and has returned 28.56% since inception in February ...