Australian Ethical has launched the Growth Opportunities Fund (GOF) and completed the transition to a new investment platform, enhancing its capabilities in private market investments and risk management. The GOF, designed to provide wholesale investors with access to a diversified portfolio of private market investments, received support from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and Australian Ethical Super.
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The new platform provides greater efficiency, improved risk management, and scalability across investment operations. It ensures that the investment platform is well positioned to service middle-market values-aligned and other institutional clients. The platform supports portfolio diversification and enables the development of new investment products and solutions.
Initial investments include recycling infrastructure, renewable energy, battery storage, and aged care facilities. The Fund employs impact measurement approaches to quantify the outcomes achieved, aligning with five key thematics: decarbonisation, digitalisation, urbanisation, circular economy, and changing demographics.