February
Wealthy families are trying something new – ditching the secrecy
There’s a new breed of private investment vehicle for the super rich. And they’re less interested in managing money out of view than making more of it.
- Primrose Riordan
November 2023
‘No brainer’: Why this ex JB Hi-Fi CEO backed a Byron laundry
Businessman and Byron Bay local Richard Uechtritz has wrangled $12 million to open the Byron Shire’s only commercial laundry.
- Tess Bennett
October 2023
Investors find value in championing social good
Impact investing is on the rise as more Australians seek to drive positive change as they reap financial returns.
- Prashant Mehra
May 2023
Budget to aid social impact investing
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has flagged that Tuesday’s federal budget will include measures to harness private capital to help disadvantaged communities.
- John Kehoe
Chalmers ‘must guarantee returns’ for nation-building super
This could include guaranteeing a minimum rate of return to investors, tax incentives or offering capital grants, new research commissioned by Rest suggests.
- Hannah Wootton
January 2023
Banks ponder how to make a return on social impact
Banks are pushing to provide debt funding for a government-backed social impact investment vehicle, as Aware says it would rather go it alone.
- Ayesha de Kretser and Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Ethical investing
Yes, you can get solid returns with impact investing
There’s a misconception that you can’t make a return on your investment as well as having a positive social or environmental impact.
- James Wright
Chalmers taps banks and super to fix social disadvantage
The Treasurer is working on plans to attract banks and superannuation funds to set up a social impact investing fund to tackle “entrenched disadvantage” in the May federal budget.
- John Kehoe
December 2022
Private capital eyes billions in social infrastructure projects
With $20 billion in projects waiting for private finance and super funds poised to help governments, investors are looking closely at social infrastructure.
- Agnes King
November 2022
Andrew Forrest’s family office coinvests with DFAT on Asian investment
Tattarang and the Scalzo family’s private office have co-invested with the government’s Emerging Markets Impact Investment Fund to back female entrepreneurs in Asia.
- Updated
- James Eyers
October 2022
- Exclusive
- Big four
Big four may back $400m social impact investment bank
The prime minister has reconvened the social impact investing taskforce, which has engaged with major bank CEOs on a co-funding model for social services.
- James Eyers
January 2022
Government sits on social impact report for a year
Leaders of the nascent impact investing scene are frustrated that sensible policy proposals to bring private capital into social services haven’t got a response.
- James Eyers
October 2021
- Exclusive
- Mike Cannon-Brookes
Impact investing on the rise as Liverpool Partners launches new fund
The firm has raised $350 million from institutional investors for a new fund that will invest in unlisted assets.
- Carrie LaFrenz
March 2021
High-net-worth families drawn to impact investing
Liverpool Partners, a private equity firm with an impact investing arm, says the socially conscious investor pool is growing among the nation’s rich.
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- Carrie LaFrenz
February 2021
Ex-ANZ commodities guru partners up with S&P Global Platts
Eddie Listorti, the bank’s former global head of fixed income, currencies and commodities, is back in the limelight.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
January 2021
How to run a $1.7 trillion investment fund
The flashy former hedge fund manager that runs Norway's gargantuan sovereign wealth fund explains his decision-making process.
- Richard Milne
November 2020
Pandemic a real-time experiment on ESG investing
This year provided a real-time laboratory to test the effectiveness of ethical investing and for many investors the results confirmed their original beliefs.
- Christopher Niesche
October 2020
The young scientist putting her money where her morals are
For 30-year-old environmental scientist Zara Marais, investing is about making sure her money has a social impact in line with her values.
- Aleks Vickovich
March 2020
- Exclusive
- Ethical investing
What Andrew Thorburn is doing now
After a year's sabbatical, the former NAB boss is hoping to bring his "humanity" to a new role with an impact investor in human services.
- James Eyers
November 2019
For Radek Sali, impact investing starts with George Calombaris
The Swisse vitamins boss says investing with a social conscience can save capitalism, and wants his troubled restaurant investment to lead by example.
- Michael Bailey
