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Impact only fund makes first investments

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
... Leap's second investment is YourGrocer, a business offering same-day delivery from local small businesses including butchers, green grocers, bakers and delicatessens. YourGrocer helps to promoted competition and diversity in the food and retail supply ...

Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
Reflation - the word that dominated central bank memes after the global financial crisis is back in vogue. While it became something of "it's at the back of everyone's minds, but not talked about" in intervening years, President-elect Trump has brought ...

Green bonds open impact avenue

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
The interest and popularity of socially responsible investments has created new opportunities for investors, and green bonds especially have opened avenues to impact investments for fixed income investors. According to Moody's Investors Service, in ...

ASIC gives green light to FPA fees code

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
ASIC has approved the Financial Planning Association of Australia's Professional Ongoing Fees Code. Announced by FPA chief executive Dante De Gori to over 1000 delegates at the opening of the 2016 FPA Professionals Congress, it is the first code to ...

Investors driving impact demand

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... but also have stories, and I think that's where impact investments start to come in." Speaking to the growing demand for green bonds and green bond funds, Christensen highlighted that the emergence of products like green bonds allows advisers to tell ...

Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
Twist and shout and shake it all about if we have to but there's no turning back on Trump now. There are plenty who loath the man, even more that despise him. But not the far-right wing politicians, especially in Europe where elections are due this ...

Property manager launches new fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... funds manager Folkestone intends to launch a new fund in 2017, aimed at co-financing the development of a hotel at Sydney's Green Square. The Folkestone Green Square Hotel Fund plans to launch in March by raising about $22.5 million from third party ...

Insurers to battle big data privacy concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... against ongoing user privacy and discrimination issues. This is one of the key findings of the Actuaries Institutes' latest green paper, which argued that "by better understanding customers' risk profiles, insurers will be able to provide closely tailored ...

Impact investing driving advice growth

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... the last five years there have been 96 reported impact investments in Australia, 36 of those were made in FY15 alone, with green bonds dominating a sharp increase in the $1.2 billion dollar industry. For financial advisers, understanding client interests ...

Infrastructure critical for super returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
Industry Super Funds have called on state and federal governments to be more active in developing partnerships to create infrastructure investment pipelines that will in turn boost economic growth and diversify member investments. New research from ...