SIA has an exciting and full program of events scheduled for 2012. These events include private client forums in partnership with financial advisers and family wealth advisers as well as SIA Social Investment Forums in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney during the months of May, June and September respectively.

In 2009 the Monitor Institute released a report on catalysing the emerging social impact investment market. Their view was that “…impact investors want to move beyond “socially responsible investment,” which focuses primarily on avoiding investments in “harmful” companies or encouraging improved corporate practices related to the environment, social performance, or governance. Instead, they actively seek to place capital in businesses and funds that can provide solutions at a scale that purely philanthropic interventions usually cannot reach. This capital may be in a range of forms including equity, debt, working capital lines of credit, and loan guarantees.”^

Foresters Community Finance was today named as an appointed fund manager for the Australian Government’s Social Enterprise Development and Investment Fund (SEDIF).

Officially launching the SEDIF program, Minister for Employment Participation, Kate Ellis, announced $6 million has been awarded to Foresters Community Finance with a further $6 million to be provided by Foresters’ investment partner Christian Super Fund.