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Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... use various benchmarks for their impact investments - the report said benchmarks include Cambridge Associates venture capital vintage year benchmarks, Cambridge Private Equity Index, LIBOR, MSCI Emerging Markets Indices, Consumer Price Index and Barclays ...

Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... distinguish between monitoring and reviewing - monitoring is the ongoing process of do the debtors pay their interest and their capital repayments, so that's really on an operational level," said Dick Boddeus, a lending advisor with Social Enterprise ...

A view on Woolworths' corporate responsibility report

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
If you eat or drink in Australia, you're likely to have been a Woolworths customer once or twice this year. If not, you may have bought something in a big box from BigW or Masters, as Woolworths pushes to match its doppelganger Wesfarmers in every sector. ...

Climate Change Authority backs Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... factor in its decision-making process." Policy uncertainty is a risk factor that impacts on the availablity and cost of capital for investment in renewable energy projects, and the CCA's recommendations were also hailed by the Investor Group on Climate ...

Low Carbon Australia and CEFC to merge for 2013 launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... abatement in the property and industry sectors. The CEFC will be an AU$10bn fund that will mobilise its own and private sector capital into renewable energy, low-emissions and energy efficiency projects and technologies in Australia. "The expectation ...

Mercer study to investigate shareholder loyalty rewards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... nomination process. She also noted that in Australia, taxation law encourages longer-term shareholdings by halving the capital gains taxation rate if shares are purchased and held for a year or longer. Birgden said that she and her colleagues were mindful ...

In 2040, when growth is a memory: Josh Dowse

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... be no economic growth. Rather, economic growth should not come at the expense of irreplaceable social and environmental capital. By that measure, according to the revered Hermann Daly, our economic growth has already peaked. "Economic growth has already ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance opens third Good Money site

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... lives." The Victorian government is funding Good Money $4.3m and NAB will contribute $3.5m which includes $2.5m for loan capital for microfinance loans. In addition to the loan capital, NAB also provided expertise from its marketing and communications ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... lifted from 16 th among OECD nations in 1990 to 6 th in 2010, overtaking the US in 2005. From 1993 to 1999, labour and capital productivity drove growth in all sectors. Then to 2005, as commodity prices started to boom, our terms of trade delivered the ...

Companies with carbon targets see higher reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... reductions. "We find that company investments in reduction projects are generating attractive returns well in excess of cost of capital, however, companies need to set more ambitious targets and reduce emissions to meet the IPCC target of 1.7% annual ...