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Government to establish $1 bn National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... terms which, in theory, should enable providers to have the capital to deliver social and affordable housing, Peacock said. SVA has established experience in allocating institutional investment in affordable housing. SVA manages the $30million Social ...

CEFC appoints Ian Learmonth as new chief executive officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... succeed outgoing CEO Oliver Yates, and will join the CEFC on 15 May. Learmonth comes to the CEFC from Social Ventures Australia (SVA), where he is currently head of impact investing. SVA has strong crossover with the CEFC in areas of energy efficient ...

SVA launches South Australian homelessness social impact bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
Social Ventures Australia (SVA) has launched South Australia's first social impact bond, which will fund a program addressed at ameliorating the effects of homelessness. Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing, Social Ventures Australia ...

Government issues discussion paper on social impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... regulatory barriers to growth and ways in which the government can act to address the barriers. Social Ventures Australia (SVA) is preparing a response to the discussion paper, said Ian Learmonth, executive director at SVA. "We are working away on preparing ...

Newpin Social Benefit Bond returns 12.15% in third year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... families. The bond funds the maintenance of existing centres, and the planned expansion of more centres in New South Wales. "SVA has now worked with Uniting's Newpin team for over three years which has overseen a growing number of restorations (sitting ...

The search for better social metrics to value affordable housing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... makes it easier to look at how we would measure the impact. I do think that's a very big part of partnering with somebody like SVA because they've put together a framework and it has an international best practice aspect of how they measure the social ...

Investors call for affordable housing bonds, aggregating body

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... might be needed to establish the market as well as provide an aspect of credit worthiness or risk management, a point that the SVA/Macquarie submission also highlighted. "[An aggregator funder] would effectively tap into institutional capital with some ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... in Queensland and northern New South Wales. HESTA's Social Impact Investment Trust is managed by Social Ventures Australia (SVA). When evaluating the proposal from Horizon Housing, SVA ran not only the financials but also studied the potential social ...

HESTA allocates $6.7m to affordable housing development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... in Queensland and northern New South Wales. HESTA's Social Impact Investment Trust is managed by Social Ventures Australia (SVA). HESTA committed AU$30 million to the dedicated impact investment fund last year. "Horizon Housing are a large, well managed ...

Impact Investing Australia to develop Impact Capital Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... as social benfit/social impact bonds. Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing at Social Ventures Australia (SVA) predicted there should be issuance activity in social benefit bonds in the AU$7 -$10 million range, the size at which institutional ...