The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet scored $5 million in last week's budget to consider how the Commonwealth can encourage private investment in positive social outcomes, and the government has appointed two social impact investing gurus to advise them. Read More
The Victorian government is rethinking value for money in procurement as a more expansive concept, which includes the value of affirmative action for disadvantaged groups and social returns from its billions in annual spending. Read More
The federal Treasury's new Structural Reform Group looked into why business investment hasn't risen as it should if following the typical business cycle. Secretary of the Treasury John Fraser on their findings. Read More
CASE STUDY: There are many approaches to people-centred policymaking. Experts in data analytics, behavioural insights and design thinking joined the NZ Ministry of Justice in a workshop to showcase the synergies between the methods, and the benefits for policy advice. Read More
Despite a market of keen investors, there are a lack of transactions in the embryonic social impact market. Solid evidence, which is where government has a role, will scale up this opportunity for outcomes. Read More
Australia has defended its regulatory sovereignty, and its tobacco control laws, in its first investor-state dispute settlement case. But more are likely, and there's genuine concern about how the system operates. Read More
Defined benefit versus accumulation plans, salary sacrifice, multiple funds management ... There's more to super than signing up. Dixon Advisory offers some pointers. Read More
Scott Morrison has moved to close a defined benefit super 'loophole'. They might have thought they'd be left alone in retirement, but thousands of former state bureaucrats got one more blast from the tabloid press yesterday. Read More
