Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 61 - 70 of 146 results for "Social Impact"

Impact offers opportunity during crisis: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
As COVID-19 exposes entrenched problems in society, the ability to scale social impact investments in Australia holds significant promise to drive progress towards solutions, a new report reveals. UTS associate professor Danielle Logue and Dr Gillian ...

AMP Capital ups jail stake

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... presence in the NZ PPP market over time. "Increasing our interest in the ASCF aligns closely with CommIF's positive social impact objective and provides investors with increased diversification benefits," Savage said. "CommIF has established itself as ...

Coronavirus no match for Future Fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... response from Future Fund acting chief executive officer Cameron Price, who reiterated that the fund does not "have a social impact mandate". "I think as Mr Neal said at the last estimates, we have an investment mandate to generate a long-term financial ...

New boutique launches with Channel Capital

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... did not disclose the fees. Current investments include aged care, affordable housing, behind-the-metre solar and a social impact bond. It opens to wholesale and institutional investors early 2020 and has so far raised about $40 million in a friends and ...

Ethical super fund shutters themed options

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... investment options following a review. Good Super, which was founded by Sargon's Phillip Kingston and Aron D'Souza as a social impact superannuation fund, has closed four of its themed investment options to new and existing members following a review ...

Boomers show healthy ESG appetite

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is well and truly on the radar for savvy millennials, but new research has revealed it could also be the secret ingredient to tempting Baby Boomers into engaging with their super. The research, coming ...

WA Super awards $20mn mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... in 2013 and is fully owned by the family office of Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman. WA Super's move follows social impact investments made by the $53 billion industry fund HESTA, through its partnership with Social Ventures Australia. Earlier this ...

Mental health tops TPD claims

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... long-term success; and improving the financial health of our customers is one of our key goals," NAB general manager of social impact Sasha Courville said. "Given the strong relationship between mental health and financial health, we identified the need ...

Investors must monitor social mood: Nikko

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... pocketbooks". He used two multinational corporations with mixed reputations to illustrate Nikko's view on considering the social impact of a holding - Kraft Heinz and Unilever. Fulton said Kraft Heinz had cut costs by cutting production costs. "In the ...

Industry fund awards $150m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... manage its first green bond mandate, which aims to achieve financial returns, and generate positive environmental and social impact projects. The bond, hedged in Australian dollars, is benchmarked against the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index. ...