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Impact Investing Australia launches guide to define social costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... Australia A practical guide to understanding social costs: Developing the evidence base for informed social impact investment gives practical tools to help the social services sector to identify costs, patterns of need and "ultimately develop, fund and ...

HESTA allocates $6.7m to affordable housing development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
HESTA has made its first investment in social and affordable housing, through its AU$30 million Social Impact Investment Trust. Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing, Social Ventures Australia HESTA has allocated AU$6.7 million to Horizon ...

HESTA commits $30m to impact investment with SVA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... effectively a partnership with a specialist in the area." HESTA and SVA have formed a dedicated fund, the Social Impact Investment Trust, which allows HESTA to make direct and indirect investments in a range of businesses, housing projects and social ...

Newpin social benefit bond returns 8.9% in second year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... and families director. Earlier this year, the New South Wales government will target bringing two new social impact investment transactions to market per year as part of a ten-point social impact investment policy announced this week. NSW is the first ...

Queensland commits $3m to social benefit bond pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... that will lead to social benefit bond issuance. NSW has already been in the vanguard in Australia around social impact investment - in 2013, the state government pioneered the first two social benefit bonds - the AU$7 million Newpin Social Benefit Bond ...

NSW develops first social impact investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
The New South Wales government will target bringing two new social impact investment transactions to market per year as part of a ten-point social impact investment policy announced this week. Daniel Madhavan, CEO, Impact Investing Australia NSW is ...

Impact Investing Australia hires Daniel Madhavan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... strategy, ' Delivering on Impact ', launched in September and auspices Australia's participation in the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the G8. "Australia faces some significant challenges around how to adequately fund our social services ...

SVA calls for $200-250m funding for social investment bank

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
The government should seed a social investment bank with AU$200-250 million of debt or grant funding to meet capital required by market for social impact investments, according to Social Ventures Australia (SVA). Ian Learmonth, executive director of ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
The growth of social impact investment and the development of new models for social enterprises are leading to a "new social contract" between citizens, the state and the private sector, according to Filippo Addarii, director of international strategy ...

SVA suggests reform for social enterprise capital funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... investment bank, tax concessions, they all look at structural barriers." Developing the asset class of social impact investment would mean applying commercial approaches and developing social capital models to fund initiatives that provide innovative ...