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Positive outlook for impact future: Conscious Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Investment Management. CIO Matthew Tominc noted that Conscious Investment Management focuses on social infrastructure like disability housing, deep impact, such as social impact bonds, property, including affordable housing, and environmental infrastructure. ...

Australian impact investing market nearly triples in past two years: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... information on the social impact of these investments, including 32,000 homes for people on low incomes, living with disability or transitioning out of homelessness; producing 84,000 GWh renewable energy; delivery of 788,000 healthcare treatments and ...

Lighthouse Infrastructure hires Alex O'Dea as investment director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Lighthouse Investments holds a portfolio with assets including solar farms and rooftop solar, and investments in social and disability housing. "I am really excited to be part of the Lighthouse team and look forward to working with current and future ...

Torrens University launches open course on social enterprise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... connect as a community." Tran is currently a UX developer at HireUp, an "NDIS registered online platform for people with disability to find, hire and manage support workers who fit their needs and share their interests." "The main key take-away I want ...

AMP Capital launches 2030 ESG strategy for real estate business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... portfolio - more than four million square metres. - to improve accessibility for the one in five people who have a disability across its managed assets; - and implement improved supply chain governance and work with partners to identify and address ESG-related ...

Brightlight Investment Management allocates to DPN Casa Capace

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
Brightlight Investment Management has invested with specialist disability housing provider DPN Casa Capace to develop appropriate housing solutions for NDIS participants. Sam Khalil, DPN founder and group managing director DPN Casa Capace is part of ...

Accounting for or managing: experts debate managing impact at RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... started assessing and reporting on social impact using the IRIS metrics such as jobs created or dwellings for people with disability built. However, those metrics didn't provide enough to accurately capture concepts like improving impact on mental health ...

Impact Investing Australia to administer $7m Australian government fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... their contribution to better outcomes for people and planet. We have seen 3D printed solutions for people living with disability, and employment solutions for the long-term unemployed. Many of the successful grant recipients told us they could not have ...

Bank Australia issues $125 million sustainability bond linked to SDGs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... treasurer at Bank Australia. The proceeds of the bond will be used to finance loans including community housing, specialist disability accommodation and mortgages for energy efficient homes with an added environmental offset from a conservation reserve ...

HESTA commits additional $40m to Social Impact Investment Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... budget, and NDIS being extended not only from the consumer driven side of it, but the housing side as well - specialist disability accommodation allowances, other things like that." HESTA has been pleased with the performance of the trust thus far. "The ...