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Developing methods for monitoring impact investment returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... evaluate potential investments and monitor ongoing commitments. Helga Birgden At a global level, investors are putting more money towards impact investment J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently released their third annual ...

Monitoring impact investing: the practitioner's perspective

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... accommodation service for people coming to Cairns for health services, as well as crisis accommodation for the homeless. The money has gone towards the purchase and refurbishment of the site. SEFA structured the arrangement with Three Sistas as a "longer ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance opens third Good Money site

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney at the Good Money launch in Geelong, Victoria in April The retail site in the inner city suburb of Collingwood is Good Shepherd Microfinance's ...

Investment in programs for Aboriginal women and girls needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... and community obligations. The report notes the need for financial programs focusing on wealth generation, investment and money management strategies to build long-term financial sustainability. Financial exclusion for Aboriginal women isn't just a matter ...

DEXUS building awarded international prize for innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... company in Australia," said Darren Steinberg, CEO of DEXUS, in a statement. The co-owners are donating the â,¬50,000 prize money towards the formation of the '1 Bligh Master of Architecture Final Year Prize for Sustainable Commercial Architecture' ...

Commonwealth Bank reports increased customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... offered free to primary and secondary school students. In 2012, the bank started its SmartStart Pathways program to bring money management skills to vocational students in year 11, year 12 and TAFE programs. CBA also reiterated its work with the indigenous ...

SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... this as something where you have to work carefully and slowly to build up a sustainable loan book rather than get a lot of money out the door. The trick in any banking activity isn't the money going out the door, but the money coming back in the door ...

Cruelty Free Super celebrates second birthday

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... negative screens on investments. The fund uses independent trustees Grosvenor Pirie Management while Coates's UK-based Ethical Money financial planning firm selects and manages external investment manager and uses research from UK-based ethical research ...

Kidney: Australia should look to fund NBN with green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... Kidney told The Sustainability Report. "What investors are looking for is not AAA - there is too much AAA. It's negative money these days in Europe. What people are looking for is A and AA. If you think about those three things, here's a demand for A ...

Foresters finances Eating Disorders Victoria service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... government and by increasing competition for philanthropic funding, said Jennifer Beveridge, EDV CEO. "The social enterprise money was really a source of funds that would feed a program for us that we believe will be self-sustaining within a couple of ...