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Superannuation: A critical tool for social progress

Helen Steel, Tuesday, 6th August 2019 -  Our super can function as a powerful lever to not only contribute to the simultaneous health and wealth of our nation, but to incentivise purpose-led business more broadly, writes Shared Value Project CEO Helen Steel.
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Own your financial future project

Contributor, Tuesday, 6th August 2019 -  A new grant-funded project aims to demystify basic investment and financial concepts and empower women over 55 to have conversations with their partners, children and financial advisers, writes Silvana Eccles, national education and operations manage
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Making money, doing good: The growth of impact investment

Contributor, Thursday, 1st August 2019 -  As the impact investment sector expands, new and improved measurement is helping to bring the practice into the financial mainstream. 

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Moving from a***hole investing to investing

Daniel Madhavan, Wednesday, 17th July 2019 -  Daniel Madhavan, the CEO of Impact Investment Group, shares three things he doesn’t like about setting an allocation for impact investment and why it’s useless to put “impact” into a single unified bucket of delicious goodness.
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Purpose-driven investment for purpose-driven organisations: The case for ethical investing

Contributor, Tuesday, 16th July 2019 -  Whatever the future holds, ethical investing will continue to increase its impact. In this article, Mathew Browning, U Ethical chief executive officer, answers three common questions about investing ethically.

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Everything and therefore nothing: Why we must reject the ‘impact’ investors adding nothing new

Contributor, Monday, 15th July 2019 -  Impact investing is about so much more than good intentions and transactional impact measurement – it’s about supporting genuine social innovation and taking risks to help a new project to thrive, just like in venture capital, says Luciano Balbo,

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Looking back and looking forward on Australia’s opportunity to lead on impact

Rosemary Addis, Tuesday, 9th July 2019 -  On 1 July, Rosemary Addis handed over the chair of Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing. Here she reflects on what’s happened in the sector since she first founded the organisation in 2013.
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Responsible investing flies into the mainstream market

Maggie Coggan, Thursday, 4th July 2019 -  Nearly half of all professionally managed investments made in Australia are now classed as responsible, and they are outperforming mainstream investment funds, a benchmark report has revealed.  
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Talking about a clean money revolution

Wendy Williams, Wednesday, 3rd July 2019 -  A clean money revolution is not only required – it’s well underway, says self-described “financial activist” Joel Solomon.

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Impact investing – Tokenism and words no longer enough

David Crosbie, Thursday, 20th June 2019 -  The Australian government has put its toe in the water of impact investing but we’re falling behind countries like the UK and Canada where governments have made significant investments to support the market, writes Community Council for Australia C
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