FGII Market Information Day (June 2025)

Overview

The Market Information Day on Wednesday 18 June will be held hybrid in Adelaide. This event is an opportunity to share impact investments in the market and invite discussion.  

Market Information Days are designed to educate attendees about the social impact investment landscape and opportunities from social impact funds, charities and social ventures. The event will focus on learning in a mutually supportive environment; newer investors learn from the questions posed by their more experienced peers, and those presenting can benefit from feedback on their ideas.

In this session we will hear from the following for-purpose organisations: SIX (Sustainable Investment Exchange), Urban Villager, Ecotone Partners, Australian Ethical. Along with a market update in the Endowments for Impact Challenge from the Reichstein Foundation. Learn more about the speakers below. 

The FGII Market Information Day coincides with the CSI Flinders Shaping the future of leadership in the for-purpose sector Conference on Thursday 19 June in Adelaide, where FGII will participate in a panel on impact investing alongside speakers from Paul Ramsay Foundation and The Wyatt Trust. Learn more and register here.

Please note:

• • Presenters will share their thoughts and views in conversation but will not offer any financial advice.
  • A brief survey will be provided for completion at the end of each presentation.

Audience

Philanthropic funders, foundations and FGII guests are welcome to attend this event. 

For questions about this event or FGII, please contact the FGII Program Director Michelle Di Fabio at fgii@philanthropy.org.au. Find out how to become a FGII member here.

If you wish to sign up as a Philanthropy Australia member, please reach out to membership@philanthropy.org.au.

When

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Online attendance:

12:00pm - 1:30pm AEST (ACT, NSW, QLD, VIC)

11:30am - 1:00pm ACST (NT)

10:00am - 11:30am AWST (WA)

In-person attendance: 11:30am - 1:30pm ACST (SA)

Location, hybrid event

Online: Meeting link will be provided after registration.

In-person: Flinders University City Campus, Adelaide. Venue address will be provided after registration.

Speakers

			Adam Verway, Co-Founder, SIX (Sustainable Investment Exchange) Adam has a passion for using capital in a way that seeks to create systemic change on climate change and inequality. In 2014 he co-founded Future Super and became a director of ACCR. Both organisations were built to shake things up for a better future. Future Super shook up the $3 trillion super industry into taking their members' concern about climate risk seriously. ACCR created the blueprint for shareholder advocacy in Australia and got corporate boardrooms shaking.
			SIX is Adam’s next big chance to shake things up – Australia’s first fintech to combine activism with investing. SIX is the share trading app that makes it easy for ethical investors to invest with their values, and gives them the investing power to build a better world by influencing big companies to do better.
			Alice Joy, Co-Founder and CEO of Urban Villager Alice Joy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Urban Villager, an impact-focused real estate architecture and development company. Legally trained with a master’s degree in Wellness, Alice has been building partnerships, strategies and blended financial models since 2012.
			Urban Villager’s mission is to use real estate development as an agent for social and environmental good. Its current focus is on shared equity housing, where it works with mission-aligned finance partners to deliver quality affordable housing to frontline workers. Urban Villager’s pilot shared equity project, supported by Brightlight and the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, uses blended finance incorporating philanthropic, impact and commercial capital, delivering financial returns every 24-27 months. The capital stack for the second project is currently being structured. Urban Villager was a finalist for Impact Enterprise of the Year in the Australian Impact Investment Awards in 2025. It is seeking support from philanthropy to scale its shared equity model.