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Super battle on impact investing and returns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... Super, Aware Super and HESTA pushed back - telling the crowd that financing the energy transition and solutions for the housing crisis were not in the super funds' mandates. Some Aussie super funds have already integrated impact investment into their ...

Members shouldn't carry energy and housing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... out to do 30 years ago. "There is a really interesting contest of ideas that we need to have with Australians about the housing crisis and money sitting in a pool that is compounded over time," she said. "We saw what happened when people were given a ...

Cannon-Brookes backs rural climate fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... emissions reductions in Macleay NSW was awarded $14,957. $20,000 was allotted towards build energy efficiency for social housing in Gympie, QLD. A further $20,000 was granted to a local Indigenous community in the Northern Territory to build capacity ...

Sunshine state issues $2.75bn green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... that have either environmental or social characteristics. One underlying asset in the pool is linked to an Aboriginal Housing Stimulus project, said TCorp head of funding and sustainability Daniel Chandler. With this most recent issuance, TCorp has exhausted ...

TCorp issues first sustainability bond of 2024

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... that have either environmental or social characteristics. One underlying asset in the pool is linked to an Aboriginal Housing Stimulus project, said TCorp head of funding and sustainability Daniel Chandler. With this most recent issuance, TCorp has exhausted ...

$200m social housing catalyst for clean energy sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... federal and NSW state government have announced a partnership of $200 million in funding for clean energy upgrades on social housing and low-income rentals. The funding will go towards upgrading housing stock in the parts of New South Wales that face ...

Podcast: Banking on the future with Australia's green bank

THE GREENER WAY  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... best practice." The CEFC was allocated $1 billion in the 2023-24 Budget to provide discounted consumer finance across the housing sector along with banks and other financial institutions.

Built industry bodies call for green innovation policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... would come at a low cost to government, enhance the sustainability benchmarks of Australian buildings and contribute to housing solutions in the midst of a housing crisis." State and territory governments must "turbocharge the shift to high-performance ...

$50 million backing for Conscious Investment Management fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Conscious Investment Management has received more than $50 million in commitments for its second Social Housing Fund (CIMSHF2) as it reaches first close. The Paul Ramsay Foundation is the cornerstone investor in CIMSFH2, which will aim to deliver market-rate ...

Treasury spruiks CEFC role in sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... best practice." The CEFC was allocated $1 billion in the 2023-24 Budget to provide discounted consumer finance across the housing sector along with banks and other financial institutions. "The new Household Energy Upgrades Fund will support investment ...