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Accounting for or managing: experts debate managing impact at RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... million policy premiums into socially progressive projects in Australia. QBE is looking towards areas such as affordable housing, renewable energy and healthcare. "For us in the Premiums4Good portfolio, it's fair to say that the investments in terms ...

HESTA commits additional $40m to Social Impact Investment Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... investments include Horizon Housing, a community housing provider in Queensland that aims to increase the supply of affordable housing. There are growing opportunities for further investment in the social impact space, said Michael Lynch, Executive Director ...

QBE commits minimum $100m to impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... in Australia and around the world as part of its Premiums4Good program. QBE is looking towards areas such as affordable housing, renewable energy and healthcare. QBE manages a portfolio of more than $20 billion globally, and the company's interest in ...

Eight Investment Partners launches 8IP Australian Equity Impact Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... Equity Impact Fund in January 2017, and it is currently invested in 29 companies that fall into nine sectors - affordable housing, renewable energy, care and support, wellbeing: health care services, education, wellbeing: medical devices, energy storage ...

Government to establish $1 bn National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
The government will establish the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC), an affordable housing bond aggregator designed to attract private and institutional investment and provider cheaper, longer-term finance to the development ...

CEFC appoints Ian Learmonth as new chief executive officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... is currently head of impact investing. SVA has strong crossover with the CEFC in areas of energy efficient affordable housing and the built environment, and Learmonth has also served as an independent member of the CEFC Executive Investment Committee ...

CEFC makes two investments totalling $230 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... million, one towards net-zero carbon emission office buildings, the other to build energy-efficient social and affordable housing. The CEFC will invest $100 million in the AMP Capital Wholesale Office Fund (AWOF), which "is aiming to deliver a property ...

Government issues discussion paper on social impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... area, but to do this successfully, they have to have the states on board because states do deliver social and affordable housing on a day to day basis. It's all part of the package." Given states like New South Wales have also been active in developing ...

Evergen to pilot program installing system with SGCH

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... Environment, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and SGCH to deliver an innovative solution for social and affordable housing tenants. The systems, which are in the process of being installed, will have solar PV's installed on the roofs and the ...

Connecting off-grid communities with renewable tech: AllGrid Energy

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... is also starting collaborations with Alpha technologies, to introduce Wi- Fi, and Solar Relief to introduce affordable housing for remote communities. "It's as an Indigenous company and philosophy of working together that we embrace," Pratt said. "It's ...