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Social Ventures Australia launches $7 million Resolve Social Benefit Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
Social Ventures Australia (SVA) has gathered $7 million in capital to fund a social benefit bond to fund a program addressing mental health services. Elyse Sainty, SVA director impact investing The Resolve Social Benefit Bond (Resolve SBB) will fund ...

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 ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... being a vehicle that is able to issue bonds to investors, with the intent of seeing those bonds taken up by institutional capital, superannuation, and the like," said Mark Peacock, a cting executive director, Impact Investing, Social Ventures Australia. ...

APRA hires lead for new team that will consider cyber-security risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... the lead in governance, operational and insurance and will issues "such as IT and cyber security." Karin Halliday, AMP Capital corporate governance manager APRA recently announced a number of executive appointments to its leadership team. APRA has hired ...

SVA launches South Australian homelessness social impact bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... investing, Social Ventures Australia The seven-year, $9 million Aspire Social Impact Bond (SIB) will fund the working capital of the Aspire Program, which is a partnership between the South Australian state government, Hutt St Centre and Common Ground ...

Government issues discussion paper on social impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... response to the government's paper," he said. "We would encourage the government to continue to look at attracting private capital into the sector and we would encourage the governments support of impact investing and to that end, the ongoing development ...

ARENA grants $18m to Queensland combined wind, solar, storage project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... in North Queensland. The AU$18 million is in the form of recoupable grant funding for a Windlab and Eurus Energy joint venture to build the first $120 million phase of Kennedy Energy Park, consisting of 19.2 MW (AC) solar photovoltaic (PV), 21.6 MW wind ...

Newpin Social Benefit Bond returns 12.15% in third year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... of the government savings that come as a result of the successes of the Newpin program. Investors, which have provided capital to Uniting to fund the operation and expansion of the program, also receive a return based on the proportion of children restored ...

Podcast: Australia's Affordable Housing Solution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... Bono Australia News to investigate the challenges and opportunities for developing affordable housing. Leveraging private capital, including that of Australia's $1.4 trillion superannuation industry, could unlock significant investment in the sector. ...

Investors call for affordable housing bonds, aggregating body

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... model," said Brett Chatfield, investment manager, public markets at Cbus. "A large intermediary that facilitates the flow of capital from institutional investors through to the affordable housing providers gives much greater scale and allows a more cost ...