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| | | ... funds established and controlled by 'sophisticated' or 'professional' investors accessing wholesale offerings for social impact bonds. The Inquiry agreed with the premise that government intervention can play a catalytic role both in facilitating the ... |
| | | | ... strategy, 'Delivering on Impact', which was launched in September. It is also leading Australia's participation in the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the G8. Madhavan said: "Australia faces some significant challenges around how to ... |
| | | | Global insurer QBE Insurance has announced it intends to allocate $100 million to social impact investments over the next three years. QBE chief investment officer Gary Brader said: "We're very interested in social benefit bonds, because in addition ... |
| | | | ... requires the RIL funds to avoid investing in companies with a material exposure to activities that have a high negative social impact including the production and manufacture of tobacco, nuclear power (including uranium), armaments, alcohol, pornography ... |
| | | | ... workers made her a natural choice for the Foundation." "With her strong leadership skills and personal passion for social impact, I am confident Lara will further the MLC Community Foundation's strategic priorities," he said. Bourguignon said that she ... |
| | | | ... said that boards - and by default their big investors - need to get more involved issues such as environmental and social impact, which are currently more the domain of management. Easterbrook cited the example of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "When ... |
| | | | Institutional investors should update their environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards to limit investment in private equity firms that make use of the controversial leveraged buy-out (LBO) strategy, according to social policy network Catalyst. ... |
| | | | ... investing in companies that bring in some sort of social or environmental good. He talked about the GAVI Alliance social impact bond, which aims to increase immunisation in developing countries through issuing "vaccine bonds", the return of which is ... |
| | | | ... executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball said that a consultation process found that members expressed more concern for positive social impact than environmentally sound investment. Rodwell-Ball said he was surprised by the turn away from environmental concerns. ... |
| | | | ... is a key contributor to social exclusion of Indigenous Australians as highlighted in a report by the Centre for Social Impact in 2012, which found that 43.1% of Indigenous Australians surveyed were either severely or fully socially excluded compared ... |
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