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Advocates say WA is ripe for impact investing

Luke Michael, Tuesday, 1st October 2019 -  Impact investing is yet to gain traction in Western Australia, but a new cross-sector alliance is looking to change this by building the state’s impact investment market from the ground up.

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What is the impact investor’s special sauce?

John Treadgold, Thursday, 12th September 2019 -  John Treadgold sits down with two impact investors to find out what impact investors do that makes them different from the rest. A clue… it comes down to “additionality”, and doing two things that set them apart.
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Meet the taskforce experts leading the way on social impact investing

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 5th September 2019 -  Dr Catherine Brown, Danny Gilbert AM and Sally McCutchan have been appointed to join the Social Impact Investing Taskforce Expert Panel.
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Australia’s green bond issuance tops $15 billion

Rachel Alembakis, Tuesday, 3rd September 2019 -  Australia issued $15.6 billion in green bonds as of the end of June, yet there is a pipeline of more than 400 green infrastructure investment projects, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative.
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His and HERS: Scoring the leaders and laggards on gender diversity

Wendy Williams, Tuesday, 3rd September 2019 -  A new framework has been developed to help investors identify the most gender diverse companies, after it was revealed gender diverse firms tend to outperform their less diverse peers.

Opinion

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Improving the finance sector for all Australians

Contributor, Wednesday, 21st August 2019 -  Trust in our financial services has been shaken by scandals, but in a new white paper, FinFuture, researchers show how the system can be reformed to put financial wellbeing front and centre, write Dr Chris Culnane, Associate Professor Andrew Godwin,

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Innovative uses of philanthropic funds to tackle complex social problems

Libby Ward-Christie, Monday, 19th August 2019 -  A recent case study by the Centre for Social Impact highlights the power and potential of innovative solutions to address long-term homelessness. Moreover, it highlights the potential of innovative approaches to funding such initiatives that arise wh

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Time to change the way we invest

Contributor, Thursday, 15th August 2019 -  Why are more foundations not joining the mission-investing trend or deploying a greater share of their assets, asks Ellen Dorsey, executive director at Wallace Global Fund.
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Three reasons impact investing needs women

Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 14th August 2019 -  While women are already playing a big part in the rapidly growing global impact investing market, sector experts say encouraging more women into the traditionally male-dominated field can only lead to good things. We find out why.

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Finance first or impact first? Neither!

Daniel Madhavan, Thursday, 8th August 2019 -  Daniel Madhavan, the CEO of Impact Investment Group, discusses what bothers him about oversimplifying impact investing into either finance first or impact first, and explains why we should let go of all the names and frames and just see the resources
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