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Green Moves: ACSI, PRI, HOPE Housing

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... years at Deloitte, specialising in the sustainability aspects of mergers and acquisitions. As for the social impact investment space, Debra Goundrey has been appointed director of capital raising at HOPE Housing Fund Management. The NSW-based investment ...

Impact investing needs instos to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... backing from the likes of Qantas Super and Australian Ethical. Michael Trail, the executive director of the social impact investment manager, said 15 years ago he would have liked to see the superannuation sector allocate 2% to 3% to large-scale impact ...

Green moves: HSBC, ACSI, Minderoo, The Superpower Institute, QLD Office of Social Impact, Terrain NRM

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... organisations, Paul Ramsay Foundation, most recently as chief impact officer. He also led the NSW Office of Social Impact Investment, where he oversaw over $200 million in impact investments and played a key role in pioneering outcome-based funding models. ...

Super battle on impact investing and returns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024  |  NEWS
... multiple social impact transactions, including affordable housing developer Nightingale Housing. The Social Impact Investment Trust (SIIT) was HESTA-funded and managed by Social Ventures Australia. REST, a super fund with more than A$75 billion in assets ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... local amenity ($766 million or 4%) and income and financial inclusion ($327 million or 2%), RIAA said. Social impact investment continues to lag behind environmental because of "the shortage of social impact investment opportunities that transparently ...

Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Social Impact Investing Taskforce has released its interim report examining the Commonwealth's role in the social impact investment (SII) market. The taskforce comprises an independent expert panel with SII expertise and a support team within the Department ...

HESTA allocates $20 million to affordable housing development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... inclusive." The Nightingale investment is the single biggest commitment HESTA has made through the Fund's $70m Social Impact Investment Trust (SIIT). SVA manages SIIT, with investments designed to provide both a risk-adjusted market-based return and ...

United Nations Development Programme launches SDG Impact

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... can do toward improving social and environmental issues," said Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group and The Portland Trust. "There comes a time when they can no longer talk only about making money." At current ...

Expert panel discusses growth of Australia's impact investing market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... benefit of its members, when it comes to certain investments, such as its $70 million commitment to the Social Impact Investment Trust (SIIT) managed by Social Ventures Austraila, they consider the specific social impacts of the four investments it has ...

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) ...
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