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Expert panel discusses growth of Australia's impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... pipeline, such as the bonds that NAB have issued. Goodman, who also works on the Giant Leap Fund, an early stage venture capital fund that looks at scalable, tech-enabled businesses that have a social or environmental benefit build into the strategy ...

Giant Leap venture capital fund seeks impact businesses for investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
Giant Leap Fund has become Australia's first venture capital firm investing in impact businesses. The $15 million fund is owned by Impact Investment Group, and is investing in businesses that "blend financial returns with deep social and environmental ...

Artisan raises $26 million for the Clean Energy Seed Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... startups over its 4-year investment period. It is registered with Innovation and Science Australia as an early stage venture capital partnership (ESVCLP) providing investors with tax-free returns. The fund will target scalable, high growth potential ...

Impact Investing Australia launches inaugural Australian survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... investors allocate to real assets, pay for performance instruments such as social benefit bonds, and private equity or venture capital, while investors not yet active in impact investing have no consistent preference for investment types. Allocations ...

Q&A: Richard Brandweiner, CIO First State Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... prompted us to at least be mindful of the longer term implications of investing in the local economy. Things like venture capital and our ability to keep talent and ideas in Australia, where before there was a fundamental gap between very early stage ...

First State Super invests in Australian tech, almonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
First State Super has made two allocations in recent months, investing in venture capital focusing on Australian internet start-ups and Australia agriculture, which the fund says is in line with the investment principal of universal ownership. First ...

CSIRO hire Larry Marshall as chief executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... executive of CSIRO Marshall is currently the managing director of Southern Cross Venture Partners, "an early stage venture capital firm specialising in creating Australian technology companies and growing them globally in Asia and the United States," ...

ARENA invests in Sunverge Energy via venture capital fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and the other AU$3.8 million has come from Softbank China Venture Capital (SBCVC). This is part of a USD 15 million (AUD 16.3 million) financing round that also received contributions from the Venture ...

University of Sydney issues second impact investing report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... enterprises, healthcare, affordable housing and community development," and in asset classes including "private equity, venture capital, private debt, real estate and international listed equity." Developing the impact investment market requires overcoming ...

Stewardship: the costs of developing social enterprises

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... building. This process is not unknown in the finance world - impact investing is often compared to private equity, venture capital and other unlisted asset investment vehicles in terms of the time and cost fund managers must invest to find investible ...