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Protecting impact from Greenwash - Duncan Paterson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... GIIN website. We would also note the emerging science of assessing a mainstream equity fund's environmental and social impacts, frequently in the context of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Impact measurement and management offers a range of exciting ...

SVA Diversified Impact Fund receives more than $10m in funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... established with $500,000 in seed assets in the form of social impact bonds - SVA has reserved $500,000 of the social impacts bonds they have put into the market in the last year - Newpin Queensland bond, the Resolve Bond and the Aspire bond in South ...

Social Ventures Australia launches Diversified Impact Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... established with $500,000 in seed assets in the form of social impact bonds - SVA has reserved $500,000 of the social impacts bonds they have put into the market in the last year - Newpin Queensland bond, the Resolve Bond and the Aspire bond in South ...

HESTA makes $19m impact investment in aged care facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... the financial and investment nature of the project, SVA will also be seeking appropriate metrics to measure the social impacts of the retirement village, which will be completed in 18 months. "We're doing work in collaboration with Glenview to be a bit ...

BlackRock presses case for better ESG disclosures for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... accretive to fundamental financial and investment analysis, the paper states. Management of material environmental and social impacts is a signal of the company's management and its long term sustainability. But while Bennett said that Australian listed ...

The search for better social metrics to value affordable housing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
There is a multistakeholder push to develop metrics to more accurately measure the social impacts of affordable housing developments, with investors, intermediaries and housing providers all seeking more reliable standards to assess social as well as ...

Corporates implementing social return on investment frameworks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... partner, advisory, climate change and sustainability services at KPMG Australia. "To what extent are they considering social impacts and the ability to do better through master design and through having the program flow through that lens of not only ...

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 ...

Impact investing key trend for 2016: AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... a second fund, which will focus on impact investments in sectors that provide environmental solutions that have social impacts. The second impact fund of funds will place environmental solutions connected to social outcomes as the key theme. The fund ...

AXA IM to launch second impact investing fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... a second fund, which will focus on impact investments in sectors that provide environmental solutions that have social impacts, said Matt Christensen, global head of responsible investment at AXA IM. "What we're looking for are environmental solutions ...