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Institutional investors step up engagement as part of Climate Action 100+ initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
Institutional investors including AustralianSuper, Cbus and UniSuper have scaled up engaging with "systematically important" greenhouse gas emitting companies globally under the Climate Action 100+ initiative. Climate Action 100+ was launched in December ...

Giant Leap venture capital fund seeks impact businesses for investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... impact." Impact Investment Group "provides the cornerstone team" of Richardson, Amanda Goodman and Rachel Yang, with venture partners Adam Migrom, Kylie Charlton and Peter Cameron. The fund is sector agnostic, but the fund hopes to see more opportunities ...

Sodexo Australia moves to cage free eggs for fresh egg supply

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
Sodexo Australia has begun sourcing 9 million fresh eggs for its Australian operations from cage free egg supplier Farm Pride Foods. Photo courtesy Sodexo Australia The switch to cage-free eggs comes seven years ahead of parent company Sodexo's corporate ...

IFC invests US$75m in Garanti Bank gender bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
The IFC has invested US$75 million in a bond issue by Turkey's Garanti Bank that will finance enterprises and companies owned or managed by women. The new bond has a six-year term maturity and is the first private sector gender bond in emerging markets ...

HESTA commits additional $40m to Social Impact Investment Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
HESTA committed an additional $40 million to its Social Impact Investment Trust (SIIT), more than doubling its investment in the social impact vehicle. Michael Lynch, Executive Director, Impact Investing, SVA. Managed by Social Ventures Australia (SVA) ...

QBE commits minimum $100m to impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... The $100m is a minimum commitment - as our business grows, that baseline will grow. There is also a mechanism for our partners and customers to opt in at a higher percentage." Any potential impact investments must meet the company's investment profile ...

Victoria to pilot investment plan, test Community Futures Investment Model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... bring institutional investment-level scale and capital to community-based investments. Gordon Noble, director of FenElpi Partners In the 2018-2019 Victorian state budget presented earlier this month by Treasurer Tim Pallas, the government allocated $5 ...

CEFC makes its 10th investment in large-scale wind farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... energy-intensive electricity sector." The $250 million Crudine Ridge Wind Farm is being developed by CWP Renewables and Partners Group, with the CEFC participating in a $113 million senior debt facility alongside Westpac and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. ...

CEFC extends investment with P2P lender RateSetter by 18 months

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has extended its investment with peer-to-peer lender RateSetter for the finance of energy efficient and renewable energy products. RateSetter is the CEFC's first investment in a peer-to-peer lending platform. ...

New Forests given award for portfolio of carbon offset projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... California Compliance Offset Protocol - US Forests Projects, a project with the Yurok Tribe in 2014. The Forest Carbon Partners portfolio encompasses more than 450,000 acres of forests across the continental US and Alaska. New Forests' Forest Carbon ...