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Expert panel discusses growth of Australia's impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... partnership with Good Shepherd Microfinance, and their work to find scale and develop the investment pipeline, such as the bonds that NAB have issued. Goodman, who also works on the Giant Leap Fund, an early stage venture capital fund that looks at scalable ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... made between 2010 and 2017, with 101 assets actively being managed at 31 December 2017 and 27 exits or repayments. Green bonds are a significant slice of the impact investing market, accounting for $4.9 billion of the 2018 data set. The funds raised ...

QBE commits minimum $100m to impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... the market globally," White said. "In 2014, we agreed to make a global commitment to invest $100 million in social impact bonds, globally." Since that time, the desire to commit more to impact investing has expanded, leading up to the creation of the ...

Victoria to pilot investment plan, test Community Futures Investment Model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... together towards a common objective." "The authors of the book have contributed thinking to the development of community bonds, which was then incorporated in some of the thinking behind the Community Sports Infrastructure Loans pilot," Noble said. "The ...

CEFC makes its 10th investment in large-scale wind farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... Queensland, Victoria and South Australia. The CEFC has also indirectly invested in wind projects via its commitments to green bonds and equity funds. Since the CEFC began investing in 2013, a total of 44 wind projects have been built or reached financial ...

Future Super Renewables Plus option sees $50 million inflow in two weeks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... Renewables Plus's renewable energy investments are in stocks, but Verway said the majority of investment will come from bonds, infrastructure debt and direct investment in unlisted assets, such as private equity. Investing in bonds, infrastructure and ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... short-term market volatility, which AXA IM believes "may be signifying the final stages of a bull market in equities and bonds." Matt Christensen, AXA IM's global head of responsible investment, gave an update on responsible investment and impact investing ...

ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... which measure should we use, what is the best price for the risk we take, but there are positive impact investing and impact bonds that we are proactively looking to find and encouraging issuance of." Murphy noted that the universe for those bonds is ...

International Finance Corporation issues $300m Kangaroo social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... Social and Governance bond market, unlocking additional funding for development." IFC has issued a total of eight social bonds in public and private markets across four different currencies, amounting to a total volume of US$667 million. The IFC also ...

Green Bond Pledge launched to increase use of green bond finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... corporations to increase the use of green bond finance for infrastructure investment programs. Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative Figueres spoke at the Climate Bonds Initiative conference in London. The pledge has been developed by more than ...