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IIG launches alternative fund-of funds impact strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... private equity, venture capital for high-growth startups which meet the fund's impact thesis, impact debt, social impact bonds, environmental assets and regenerative farming. The fund has a pipeline of early investments, with the first deals expected ...

Australian impact investing market nearly triples in past two years: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... assets ($2.2 billion), private debt ($287 million), public equity ($195 million), private equity ($97 million), social impact bonds (SIBs) ($66 million) and others ($44 million)." The study also finds that investors ranging from superannuation funds ...

Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... support to increase outcomes-based contracting, which is a popular structure for social impact deals. Existing social impact bonds in NSW and SA, such as the Newpin Social Benefit Bond and the Aspire Social Impact Bond are based on outcomes-based contracts. ...

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 ...

SVA Diversified Impact Fund receives more than $10m in funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... "We are very much looking forward to that. We have, I think, a really interesting pipeline. We have three social impact bonds that we intend to invest in, and we have a number of really interesting opportunities in areas like classic social enterprises ...

Social Ventures Australia launches Diversified Impact Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... Schwartz through the Trawalla Foundation. It has been established with $500,000 in seed assets in the form of social impact bonds - SVA has reserved $500,000 of the social impacts bonds they have put into the market in the last year - Newpin Queensland ...

IGCC calls for action, investment to adapt at-risk infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... cross-government ownership of adaptation funding and implementation, and points to the collaborative approach of social impact bonds and impact investment for their collaborative approach to project scoping and development. Eureka Real Assets also participated ...

AXA IM launches "impact-style" fund linked to gender diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... broader set of asset classes," Christensen said. "For example, in Australia we are now seeing the rise of social impact bonds."

SVA launches South Australian homelessness social impact bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... term of the SIB, SVA said in investor information. "We see ourselves as a leading exponent or arranger of social impact bonds," said Ian Learmonth, executive director at SVA. "It's been tremendous to work with the South Australian government who have ...

Government issues discussion paper on social impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... established and controlled by 'sophisticated' or 'professional' investors accessing wholesale offerings for social impact bonds." The FSI report also noted that government should offer explicit public support for the private sector interest in impact ...