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Industry to coordinate efforts to develop impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... some examples in Australia where social impact is being taken into consideration, including the issuance of social benefit bonds in New South Wales. "With the social benefit bond trials, there are some very stringent and transparent easy-to-measure measurements," ...

Social Enterprise Finance Australia hires Ben Gales as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... business." Gales has extensive experience in social investment - he has been involved in the development of social benefit bonds in NSW and in the establishment in the Phoenix Fund in the UK to support small enterprises in disadvantaged communities. ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... head of sustainability at LGS. "We are trying to get that via ESG integration and the thematic allocation like these green bonds." Hartnett noted that the green bond appeals to LGS on a number of levels, including the fact that they are AAA rated notes ...

Unlisted alt assets as vehicle for accessing sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... identified unlisted alternative assets including private equity, infrastructure, agriculture, timber and private equity/green bonds as potential vehicles that could provide purest access to sustainability themes, minus the volatility of listed assets. ...

Net Balance launches research and development institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... CSI's research into impact investing and social finance, including assessing the feasibility of implementing social impact bonds in New South Wales and what actions would be necessary to create a capital market for social investment in Australia. Whilst ...

VicSuper integrates governance risk into bond portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... Essentially this implies that our portfolio has proportionate holdings to those of the benchmark. This includes holding bonds of very indebted countries of the Eurozone. This index is also heavily exposed to the US and Japan - they're about 30% respectively ...

Unconventional gas development poses risks to investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... governments or they damage other state based industries, this could have a flow on effect to the credit ratings to the government bonds and can result in an impact on our bond investments. As universal owners, asset owners in Australia can't avoid these ...

Investment in programs for Aboriginal women and girls needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... care, and earning the wage for the family, and then if you're somebody with strong community connections, or extended family bonds, that adds an extra layer. Where businesses are able to respond to be able to work in flexible ways, that becomes even ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... supermarkets. Because we have a balanced option, we are also invested in fixed income. From an ethical perspective, corporate bonds are treated the same way as equities." Cruelty Free Super's membership base is overwhelmingly women - 70% of members - ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
Green bonds are proving a popular option with investors, with demand exceeding supply in a recent regional French environmental bond. Sean Kidney, executive chair of the Climate Bonds Initiative says that the investor interest in green bonds should ...