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Government to aid growth of social impact investment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... sector to ensure the availability of social housing. "One of the challenges faced by all countries developing affordable housing is access to longer-term, low-cost finance," Morrison said. "Access to capital is a critical issue for the affordable housing ...

Impact investing driving advice growth

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... community based housing provider in Queensland and Northern NSW that works to increase the supply of social and affordable housing by help low income earner achieve home ownership. Chief executive at HESTA Debby Blakey emphasises that for the fund impact ...

Future Fund model for social housing

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
... has garnered support from Industry Super Australia which said "there is an urgent need to boost the supply of affordable housing to provide greater retirement security for many Australians." In a submission to the federal government's Affordable Housing ...

Kina appoints Suncorp vet as director

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... director of Queensland Treasury Corporation, Stanwell Corporation, InFocus Wealth Management and the National Affordable Housing Consortium. She also sits on the Queensland Advisory board at AustralianSuper, and was chief risk officer at Suncorp Bank ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... if the strategy is right. "If you wanted to set up a multi-manager program on the private equity side with affordable housing as an impact theme, it would be quite difficult. That's why we say one of the main messages on impact investing is you have ...

Super funds promote affordable housing ideas

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... superannuation funds have put forward several financing models directed at addressing Australia's supply of affordable housing. In response to Treasury establishing an Affordable Housing Working Group, both industry super funds and banks have generally ...

Infrastructure pricing reshaping investment landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... said they've been doing work around investments in affordable and social housing. He added the debt space in affordable housing was one area of interest. He added there is thought Cbus can become involved in infrastructure developments earlier rather ...

HESTA appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... time, chief executive Debby Blakey said: "Many of our members are familiar with the difficulty of accessing affordable housing and achieving home ownership, so it's appropriate that HESTA's first Australian impact investment has the potential to both ...

HESTA makes first impact investment in affordable housing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... Housing, a community housing provider operating in Queensland focused on increasing the supply of social and affordable housing and helping low income earners achieve home ownership. The super fund, which has more than 800,000 members working in health ...

NZ Super Fund invests in affordable housing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
The NZ Super Fund has partnered with two investment managers to develop affordable housing in Auckland. Ngāi Tahu Property and New Ground Capital have joined with the super fund to invest $106 million to build roughly 200 new homes in Auckland's ...