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Addis, Blackburn-Wright open impact investment firm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... one-off grants that has been matched by private sector investment to establish three funds - Foresters Community Finance, SEFA and the Social Ventures Australia Impact Fund. During Blackburn-Wright's time at Westpac, she was part of the team that built ...

Potential impact investment market estimated at $32 billion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... of what is permissible under the regulatory regime," said David Rickards, director of Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA). "There is no issue so long as you do the due diligence. There are appropriate investment opportunities and appropriate due ...

SEFA makes second loan, funds affordable housing purchase

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) has made its second loan, to fund the purchase of housing units in a retirement home park in Tasmania. The loan is towards the construction and installation of four, two-bedroom prefabricated units for the ...

Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... selected three fund managers to administer the fund - Foresters Community Finance Funds, Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) and Social Ventures Australia - Social Impact Fund. Another area that will require work to develop the impact investment ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) has hired Ben Gales as chief executive officer. Gales will start on 2April and comes to SEFA having formerly worked as a director at the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and has also worked in ...

Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... selected three fund managers to administer the fund - Foresters Community Finance Funds, Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) and Social Ventures Australia - Social Impact Fund. The AU$614m Christian Super superannuation fund has made several investments ...

Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations' (DEEWR) allocated AU$10m to Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA), and SEFA brought another AU$10m through its founding shareholders, which also include the New South Wales Aboriginal ...

SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA), an AU$20m fund lending to social enterprises, is working to build a sustainable loan portfolio while also working to contribute to the development of the social financing sector in Australia, fund officials ...

SEFA selects Queensland social enterprise for first loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) has made its first loan to a Queensland social enterprise that will provide accommodation to people in Cairns and Indigenous people from Cape York who travel to Cairns for health services. SEFA has loaned AU$450,000 ...

Corporate Social Responsibility as driver of innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... impact investment market in Australia," Addis said. Foresters Community Finance and Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) were selected as the first two fund managers to obtain funding under SEDIF. In another panel discussion, participants discussed ...