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Heritage Bank enacts environmental, social, governance policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... market - 95% of the bank's lending activities focus on the residential housing market, so the bank is looking to the social housing sector, "which ties in neatly with our brand," Lock said. Lock noted that seven of the bank's 60 branches are community ...

CEFC makes two investments totalling $230 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... Affordable Housing Fund (SAHF). CEFC noted that $1.1 billion SAHF is a "key component of the NSW Future Directions for Social Housing in NSW strategy that will result in more social and affordable housing dwellings linked to tailored support, to help ...

Evergen to pilot program installing system with SGCH

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... incomes are struggling the most with the rising cost of living including high energy costs," Langford said. "Many social housing tenants have high energy consumption: as a share of household income, low income households spend three times what high-income ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... There is a need to develop metrics to measure social impacts of impact investment in sectors such as affordable and social housing, healthcare, homelessness and vulnerable children and young adults among others, according to investment and governance ...

HESTA allocates $6.7m to affordable housing development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... do transactions of scale, between $2 and $20 million transactions, then it will invariably lead us to affordable/social housing opportunities." The mandate is not benchmarked, because the fund is open to investing in debt, equity and physical assets ...

Impact Investing Australia to develop Impact Capital Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... investment market," he said. "There are big opportunities being created across 2016 will still come from affordable and social housing -New South Wales is launching an AU$1 billion affordable housing fund seeking private capital to support that. Other ...

CEFC commits $250m to large scale solar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... a meaningful difference to household energy costs. "Improving the energy efficiency of low income households in social housing will help improve affordability, climate resilience and create a better living environment for tenants," Yates said. "People ...

SVA suggests reform for social enterprise capital funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... substantial sector in the economy. That has been demonstrated in previous inquiries, because it covers everything from social housing, to indigenous business, and so on." In their submission, SVA recommended establishing a social investment bank and ...

New South Wales announces first social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... business acumen, but this was about using the bond structuring. Also, Westpac has been working for some time around social housing and looking at bond structures and financing structures. It was a short leap to the social impact bond." Westpac has generated ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... strategy. The bank will also continue its work in partnership with Mission Australia to "examine feasibility of a 'social housing fund' for Australia" and will consider environmental social and governance issues incorporated into risk management policies ...
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