Open for Business: Removing the barriers to foreign investment is the third report released by The New Zealand Initiative on foreign direct investment. This final report in The New Zealand Initiative’s series on global financial links has found that New Zealand has an overly restrictive regulatory structure on inward capital flows, particularly relating to land...

This paper examines how swiftly core characteristics of the global economy are changing and the implications for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Australia, especially FDI from China. The paper focuses on how state investment capital is an increasingly important strategic priority for governments, regulators, finance sector participants and other stakeholders. This is of the utmost...

This paper proposes a new method for organisations to measure their social impact.

Investments in coal, oil, and gas increase financial risk without increasing returns, according to this report, which includes the first simulation comparing performance of an Australian fossil fuel free investment portfolio with an indexed ASX portfolio. Introduction Debates about climate change have recently been reframed in terms of financial risks. Current global fossil fuel reserves...

This evaluation documents the planning and development of Australia’s first social benefit bonds and considers what has been achieved and what can be learnt so far. Social benefit bonds are a form of payment by results (PBR) scheme in which private investors provide up-front funding to service providers to deliver improved social outcomes, with the...