Investing to change the world

Larke Riemer, Head of Women’s Markets, invites you to our first ARIA Business Lunch for the year featuring guest speaker, Kylie Charlton, Managing Director of Unitus Capital.

In 2003, after more than 10 years in conventional investment banking, Australian Kylie Charlton set out to use her background in global capital markets to solve some of the world’s most challenging social and environmental problems.

In the following six years Kylie lived in the UK and then the US, joined the international not-for-profit, Unitus Inc, in Seattle and established a team that arranged capital for microfinance institutions around the world, advised banks and investment funds on their microfinance investment strategies, and developed and raised capital for specialised investment funds.

In 2008, Kylie co-founded Unitus Capital which has since arranged more than US$100M for microfinance institutions in India and is actively raising capital in excess of US$300M for microfinance institutions and social enterprises across Asia.

While “impact investing” has little profile in Australia, in the US and Europe it is forecast to grow to US$500B in 10 years. And the global financial crisis did not curb the momentum with the top 10 microfinance investment funds growing by 32% in 2008.

Kylie returned to Australia last year to focus on the development of social investment in Australia through her Heloise Waislitz Fellowship at the Asia Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy at Swinburne University and this year through her position as Social Investment Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact.

Please join us to meet the dynamic Kylie Charlton and discuss how investing can change the world.
 

	Date: Wednesday April 28th 2010 Time: 12pm for 12.30pm start until 2pm Venue: ARIA Restaurant, No. 1 Macquarie Street, East Circular Quay, Sydney Cost: $120.00 per head includes pre-lunch drinks and canapés, a two course lunch and beverages ($10.00 of the ticket price is a donation to Fitted For Work) RSVP by: Friday April 23rd 2010 (Please note numbers to this lunch are limited) Enquiries to: Georgia MacFie on 03 9608 4837 Parking: Sydney Opera House Car Park, 2-3 hours $29, 3-4 hours $39 Public transport: Circular Quay Train Station   Click here to register