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Green jobs: Impactable, Ortec, Goldman Sachs, Compliance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... strategic initiatives. He's now global head of distribution at the firm that looks to bring institutional capital to impact investment opportunities in emerging markets. This follows a short hiatus where he took time off work, and a recent chair position ...

S&P Global gains top sustainability expert

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... Environmental Investment Organisation. Currently, she is a director of Impact Alpha Partners - a recently established impact investment research and consulting firm. Founded by former State Super equities lead Andrew Huang 11 months ago, IAP's mission ...

Gender lens investing to receive $1.5bn injection

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... sustainable development goals (SDGs) last month, which was attended by several Indonesian government agencies, the Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) and the Ford Foundation. The proposed Orange bonds aim to support women-focused enterprises with micro ...

Rest awards private equity mandate to TowerBrook Capital

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... with a secondary aim of generating social and or environmental return. This is Rest's second private equity impact investment, following its commitment to a pooled buyout fund run by European private equity firm ARCHIMED last year.

Future Super returns 10.1% to ethically minded members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... take a long-term view on the inevitability of the transition away from fossil fuels." Further, because of its impact investment mandate, the fund is also typically overweight private credit and clean energy infrastructure, which Davis believes will serve ...

Climate Change Authority appoints new chair

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... member Matt Kean will take over as the new Climate Change Authority (CCA) chair in August, with the founder of an impact investment firm named a new member. This comes amid ongoing debate around the efficacy of nuclear energy, with Kean stating the renewable ...

MLC Life sustainability manager joins impact firm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024  |  NEWS
Sustainability and impact investment expert Désirée Lucchese has joined the board of a newly formed impact research and consulting firm as a non-executive director. Impact Alpha Partners (IAP), founded in 2023, sought Lucchese's expertise spanning ...

Rest teams up with Fidelity to launch new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024  |  NEWS
Rest has announced it is further diversifying its industrial property and impact investment allocations by signing on as a cornerstone investor in Fidelity International's Fidelity Real Estate Logistics Climate Impact Fund (LOGICs). The LOGICs fund ...

Super battle on impact investing and returns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... the housing crisis were not in the super funds' mandates. Some Aussie super funds have already integrated impact investment into their firm's strategy. From 2015 to 2023the first major impact investing mandate from a major superannuation fund ...

Gender-based strategy gives impact investing a boost

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
Good Return has partnered with Macquarie to call for increased gender-based impact investment to support women entrepreneurs. There is a US$360 billion annual financing gap for women-owned small businesses, according to the UN. Impact investing, which ...