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Funding at the Edge

Laura Reed, Tuesday, 15th October 2019 -  Laura Reed explores the value of funding opportunities to convene social enterprises and others across the ecosystem.
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Impact investing gets moment in the sun with biggest players revealed

Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 9th October 2019 -  America’s biggest impact investors are being given a spotlight of their own this year, with Forbes unveiling the nation’s top 50 ethical investors, alongside its annual rich list.

Is shared value the key to solving Australia’s mental health crisis?

Maggie Coggan, Tuesday, 8th October 2019 -  With mental illness costing the Australian economy $60 billion every year, a new report says taking a shared value approach to the issue will help. 
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Putting the task in taskforce

Wendy Williams, Wednesday, 2nd October 2019 -  There’s an unashamed practical bias driving the expert panel behind the government’s Social Impact Investing Taskforce, says the panel chair.

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.

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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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