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Philanthropy Australia rolling out impact investing program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Philanthropy Australia (PA) has begun a program to educate members about impact investment, with a focus on building knowledge and awareness in its first year. Fiona Maxwell, Queensland manager at Philanthropy Australia "PA has introduced a range of ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... investments and monitor ongoing commitments. Helga Birgden At a global level, investors are putting more money towards impact investment J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently released their third annual survey into the impact ...

Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
Concomitant with institutional investors developing their processes for evaluating and overseeing potential impact investments and fund managers in that sphere and working on appropriate benchmarks for measuring financial, social and environmental impacts ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
With some institutional investors turning their analysis to impact and social value investments, measuring how those investments provide value has also seen a concomitant rise in visibility. Social return on investment (SROI) is a principle that has ...

Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... way they can finance their business, and secondly to provide a catalyst for the development the broader social impact investment market in Australia," Addis said. Foresters Community Finance and Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) were selected ...

Christian Super allocates $6m to social enterprise fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... August. "This program is an unprecedented initiative for Australia with significant scope for changing the social impact investment market," said Foresters CEO Belinda Drew at the time. "For those of us committed to aiding social enterprises and making ...