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Boost impact investing, says FSI

MARK SMITH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... Recommendation 32 called for ways to facilitate development of the impact investment market and encourage innovation in funding social service delivery. FSI chair David Murray also called for guidance to be provided to superannuation trustees on the ...

Financial System Inquiry recommendations wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... investment: Explore ways to facilitate development of the impact investment market and encourage innovation in funding social service delivery. Provide guidance to superannuation trustees on the appropriateness of impact investment. Support law reform ...

Former JBWere acting CEO joins Impact Investing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... up the newly-formed not-for-profit organisation that aims to grow impact investment opportunities such as social benefit bonds. Madhavan spent 12 years at wealth management firm JBWere, working in a range of roles including investment advisor, head of ...

QBE to invest $100 million in social benefit bonds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... investments over the next three years. QBE chief investment officer Gary Brader said: "We're very interested in social benefit bonds, because in addition to being very exciting, very clever instruments, from an investment perspective they're likely to ...

New laws bring aged care advice into the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... down or reducing thresholds on many benefits. This has boosted the demand for funeral bonds, which are exempt from the social security assets and income test up to the $12,000 threshold. "For an individual subject to the Assets Test, a funeral bond could ...

NGS Super rethinks ESG as green option flops

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... period, with a 60-40 allocation. The defensive side of the portfolio will include investments such as the Newpin Social Benefit Bond, unlisted property, and potentially ESG-approved government bonds from socially progressive, environmentally sound countries. ...

Aussie shares best in a generation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... "In the quest for better returns there is always the temptation to try and time markets in response to constant economic, social and political change. What this chart clearly demonstrates is that those who stay the course over the long term are rewarded ...

Newpin SBB benefits from international legal expertise

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
Law firm Allen & Overy has announced that it has advised Social Ventures Australia on their $7 million Social Benefit Bond (SBB), issued earlier this year. The SBB is the first of its kind in Australia, and will fund the UnitingCare Burnside Newpin ...

SBBs to be part of NGS Super's new ethical option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... ethical option that will include environmentally sound investments with other ethical investments such as social benefit bonds (SSBs). "We are taking our current green shares option, and folding that into a broader-based, ethically diversified options," ...

Planners race to plug gap in aged care advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... up, forcing those entering retirement to seek advice that guarantees them an affordable solution which takes into account social security and Government concessions. Even though retirees are lacking advice, some service providers are already setting ...