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Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
There is a need to develop metrics to measure social impacts of impact investment in sectors such as affordable and social housing, healthcare, homelessness and vulnerable children and young adults among others, according to investment and governance ...

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 ...

HESTA allocates $6.7m to affordable housing development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... are a large, well managed community housing provider in southeast Queensland and northern NSW, and they were looking for capital to fund an expansion of an affordable housing program," said Ian Learmonth, SVA's executive director of impact investing. ...

Impact Investing Australia to develop Impact Capital Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... Impact Investing and Impact Investing Australia Late last year, Impact Investing Australia launched a blueprint for Impact Capital Australia (ICA), which is envisaged as being a AU$300 million financial vehicle that will fund innovation for "improved ...

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 ...

HESTA commits $30m to impact investment with SVA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... expected to grow, given the areas that impact investing covers. "In term of the sector itself, it's a meaningful pool of capital," he said. "We're talking about social and affordable housing, the disabilities sector, businesses providing opportunities ...

Queensland commits $3m to social benefit bond pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... delivery agency as government, or you may want to take the next step - deciding that you want to fund it using private capital. If you're going to go to that next step, the question then becomes, how do you structure a financial instrument around that." ...

Inflection Point Capital Management launches Zero Carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... seed capital from La Francaise. Gordon Noble, senior portfolio analyst, Inflection Point Capital Management The joint venture, La Francaise Inflection Point (LFIP), launched La Francaise Lux-Inflection Point Zero Carbon (ZC) in mid-June. It is a long-only ...

Inflection Point CM to launch Carbon Zero fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... better." Inflection Point, a boutique investment firm with operations in London and Paris. It has established a joint venture with French fund managers Groupe La Francaise, a European fund manager with approximately US$50 billion in assets under management. ...