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Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... You do the same things. In reviewing a social enterprise, I think it's important to verify if they still have a social impact and, as you do with financial goals or budgets at the start of the enterprise, you check the projections with the realisation ...

Net Balance and ECO-Buy in sustainability service merger

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... opportunities to access new services from Net Balance's expertise, such as carbon accounting and environmental metrics, social impact measurement, stakeholder engagement, economics and policy analysis. "It will roughly stay as it is," Neil said. "There ...

Environmental, operating risk to unconventional oil projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
The historically high price of oil is fuelling the economics of unconventional petroleum projects, but investors must factor in greater risk from environmental liabilities such as marine hydrocarbon spills and ongoing operational costs when assessing ...

SEFA selects Queensland social enterprise for first loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... their business and increase the impact of their work in their communities and matches private investment. See Also: Social Impact Financing - Unlocking New Money [external site]

Banks' plans address Indigenous hiring, financial exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... common to reconciliation plans - increasing financial inclusion. Last year, research conducted by the Centre for Social Impact for NAB concluding that 2.6m adult Australians - one in seven adults - are "severely or completely" financially excluded. Indigenous ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... expanded dramatically and has very diversified clients." Mooney cited recent research conducted by the Centre for Social Impact for NAB concluding that 2.6m adult Australians - one in seven adults - are "severely or completely" financially excluded. ...

Investors weigh meaning of social return on investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... fund's CIO. "It depends on what you mean by SROI," Macready said. "If you're talking about ascribing a value to a social impact and then attributing that to your attributed financial returns, that we don't do. We believe that the idea of sacrificing ...

New South Wales announces first social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... some time around social housing and looking at bond structures and financing structures. It was a short leap to the social impact bond." Westpac has generated the funding structure for the bond, which will create tranches of debt with differing levels ...

Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... for the 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 ...

Optus CR discloses responsible marketing, customer service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... our people and the wider community can trust and to use our technology, products and services to make a positive social impact," according to their 2011 CR report. Optus also listed leadership and talent development as, minimising their environmental ...