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Financial System Inquiry addresses impact investment market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... acknowledged calls for government to take a more active role in the expansion of the impact investment market by providing risk capital to attract initial investments and developing a dedicated social investment bank. Social Ventures Australia (SVA) ...

Creating shared value a strategic opportunity for banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... is another great area. We have financial mechanisms to help not for profits and social enterprises unlock new access to capital." Benson noted that in addition to creating products aimed at funding impact investments, the bank is also supporting ongoing ...

CDP: World cities report climate change business impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... recognise that climate change is a threat to businesses located within their municipalities, with impacts on property, capital, infrastructure and social impacts to communities, according to research from CDP. CDP has published Protecting Our Capita ...

Barclays, MSCI to launch Green Bond Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... bonds will be issued in 2014, with around US$100 billion will be issued in 2015, said Jim Glascott, global head of debt capital markets at Barclays. "The creation of a Green Bond Index will be an extremely useful tool for issuers and institutional investors ...

Community 21 launches share offer to raise up to AU$4m

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... "When we started 12 years ago, we went to the non-profit sector and said, we need to look at a way to better harness the capital running to the non-profit sector and participate in a greater way in managing the funds that the sector had," said Peter ...

ACSI: companies paid premium for rights issue underwriting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... a number of years, that companies are price takers in this market rather than price makers. Any one company is raising capital fairly sporadically, whereas the market is conducting underwriting services more broadly." ACSI examined capital rights issues ...

Superannuation fund investments will shape future economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... the Australian economy, according to Gordon Noble, senior portfolio analyst and regional strategist at Inflection Point Capital Management. Gordon Noble, senior portfolio analyst, Inflection Point Capital Management Noble recently spoke with The Sustainability ...

ARENA invests in Sunverge Energy via venture capital fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and the other AU$3.8 million has come from Softbank China Venture Capital (SBCVC). This is part of a USD 15 million (AUD 16.3 million) financing round that also received contributions from the Venture ...

AMP Capital assesses progress, risks in Bangladesh factories

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... risks including poor working conditions, lack of a living wage and poor infrastructure, according to a report from AMP Capital. Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, AMP Capital Mans Carlsson-Sweeny, senior research analyst at AMP Capital, recently travelled to Bangladesh ...

CFI a source of economic opportunity for Indigenous groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... announced that they would undertake CFI-compliant savanna burning on 13,000 square kilometres in Cape York. It is Natural Capital's first savannah burning CFI project in Australia. For all organisations that would like to participate in the CFI as proposed ...