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US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... debt financing for two for-profit prison companies - Core Civic and GEO Group - that operate immigrant detention centres housing people. For the US grassroots organisations, which have organised under the Families Belong Together umbrella, the goal of ...

Q&A: Yolanda Beattie, Mercer, talks Future IM/Pact initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... we wrap it all up in a communications strategy, and that starts with the website, so we have this website where we're housing all this content we'll grow that content over time. The second angle is social channels. So we've currently got Facebook and ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... other markets," O'Connor noted. "By number of deals, socially focused investments outweigh by about 62%, particularly housing and local amenity." Many of the deals are flowing to the mature end of the market, with less going towards the start up or early ...

HESTA commits additional $40m to Social Impact Investment Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... Glenview - a not-for-profit aged care provider, and the Commonwealth Government. Other SVA investments include Horizon Housing, a community housing provider in Queensland that aims to increase the supply of affordable housing. There are growing opportunities ...

QBE commits minimum $100m to impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... in Australia and around the world as part of its Premiums4Good program. QBE is looking towards areas such as affordable housing, renewable energy and healthcare. QBE manages a portfolio of more than $20 billion globally, and the company's interest in ...

International Finance Corporation issues $300m Kangaroo social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... bond support projects "that provide finance to low-income people, including buying from smallholder farmers, or offering housing, education, and affordable healthcare. The funds will also be used to help lending to women-owned enterprises, and fund projects ...

Eight Investment Partners launches 8IP Australian Equity Impact Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... Equity Impact Fund in January 2017, and it is currently invested in 29 companies that fall into nine sectors - affordable housing, renewable energy, care and support, wellbeing: health care services, education, wellbeing: medical devices, energy storage ...

CEFC provides $90m in financing to Mirvac for residential clean energy initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... as building the foundation of an ongoing relationship with Mirvac to enhance clean energy standards in the residential housing sector."

Victorian government launches first social impact bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... government has launched the state's first social impact bond (SIB), aimed at reducing chronic homelessness. Minster for Housing, Disability and Ageing Martin Foley The Andrews Labor government has this week launched the J2SI SIB, which will fund the ...

SVA Diversified Impact Fund receives more than $10m in funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... opportunities in areas like classic social enterprises through to large indigenous businesses, and really interesting housing projects including a disability housing project." The fund will be making debt and equity investments in social purpose organisations ...