Queenie Tran

Conscious Investment Management has appointed Queenie Tran as a Director in its investment team, as it continues to grow its capability within the specialist disability accommodation (SDA) and social housing sectors.

Queenie will lead the impact investment fund manager’s property investments and asset management in SDA and social and affordable housing; as well as seeking to maximise its impact through active involvement in policy and advocacy for these areas.

Queenie’s experience in SDA is unparalleled, having spent more than seven years in not-for-profit housing roles, and over 15 years in access and architectural design. Queenie’s most recent role was Chief Operating Officer and Acting-CEO of Summer Housing, Australia’s largest SDA provider, where she focused on property acquisition, design and delivery including ongoing tenancy and asset management.

Commenting on the appointment, Conscious Investment Management, Chief Investment Officer, Matthew Tominc said: “We are delighted to have such a highly respected and experienced professional as Queenie join the team, after working together closely in her previous role at Summer Housing.  It will increasingly be important for impact investment fund managers to have in-house asset management experience, to ensure maximum impact and financial returns of assets, and we look forward to working closely with Queenie on our current and future investments.”

Director, Queenie Tran, said: “Housing is critical infrastructure that forms the basis of social and economic stability for all. I am excited to join Conscious Investment Management to invest and develop assets including SDA and social and affordable housing that provides a positive social impact.”

In October 2021, Conscious Investment Management announced a landmark social housing investment, alongside the Victorian Government and community housing organisation, HousingFirst. Conscious Investment Management also continues to expand its investments in specialist disability accommodation alongside not-for-profit partner Summer Housing.

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Tenielle Jordan

Tenielle Jordan has joined Conscious Investment Management as Vice President, Investment Legal responsible for the oversight of legal matters across its investments.

Tenielle is an experienced transactional and corporate lawyer and joins Conscious Investment Management from Brookfield Asset Management, where she spent more than a decade working on large and complex transactions.

Tenielle joins the Conscious Investment Management Sydney office from San Francisco where she was most recently the general counsel of Brookfield Technology Partners and prior to that worked in Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group in Sydney. Tenielle has worked on transactions spanning public and private mergers and acquisitions, growth-equity and venture capital, capital raisings, restructurings and joint-ventures, both in Australia and internationally.

Commenting on the appointment, Conscious Investment Management Chief Investment Officer, Matthew Tominc said “We are delighted to have such a highly respected and experienced legal professional join the team. Tenielle joins at an exciting time for Conscious Investment Management and the impact investment market more broadly, which is increasingly showing the power of financial capital to have a sustainable, positive social and environmental impact.”

Vice President, Tenielle Jordan, said: “I have spent over a decade working for one of the world’s largest asset managers and within complex transactions. When this opportunity arose, I leapt at the chance to put my skills and experience to work with an organisation that exists to make the world a better place.”

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Scott Haslem

Leading wealth adviser Crestone Wealth Management (Crestone) has announced a partnership with Conscious Investment Management through its Impact Fund.

Through its continued commitment to ESG and sustainable investing, partnering with the Impact Fund is part of a wider impact investment approach at Crestone to offer its high-net-worth, family office and not-for-profit clients investment solutions that deliver competitive returns alongside real and measurable social and environmental impact.

Conscious Investment Management is an independent impact investment fund manager based in Melbourne that focuses on investing in social and environmental property and infrastructure, with the aim of generating market rate returns of between 7-11% pa while realising a tangible and measurable social benefit. The portfolio has focused on assets including specialist disability accommodation, affordable housing, community rooftop solar and social impact bonds.

Crestone’s Chief Investment Officer, Scott Haslem, commented “at Crestone, we are committed to providing value-aligned investment solutions for our clients that deliver truly competitive returns. We are excited to be partnering with Conscious Investment Management, a leader in impact investing, and we believe our partnership will unlock investment opportunities for our investors that can deliver real social impact.”

The investment team at Conscious Investment Management is led by Chief Investment Officer, Matthew Tominc, (ex-Goldman Sachs and most recently Head of Impact Investment at a Melbourne-based family office), and overseen by an experienced independent investment advisory board. Board members include ex-Escala and JBWere Chief Investment Officer, Giselle Roux, ex-JBWere and Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer Paul Sundburg, Partner at Affirmative Investment Management, Kate Temby, and ex-Macquarie Investment Banking Executive Director, Richard Price.

Commenting on the partnership, Matthew Tominc said “impact investing has the potential to attract significant mainstream capital to fund assets that have a social and environmental benefit, while adding uncorrelated return potential to an investment portfolio.

We focus on using our capital to invest in assets that can be operated by charities or socially conscious businesses for positive impact. We are delighted to be working with the team at Crestone, who has been a great supporter of impact investments, to help grow this emerging area of finance.”

The market for impact investing has tripled over the past two years from $5.7 billion to $19.9 billion[1] as investors increase their focus on the sector.

Conscious Investment Management’s impact fund is open for investment and is designed for institutional and wholesale investors and their advisers. Channel Capital partnered with Conscious Investment Management in November last year to provide the manager with non-investment services including national distribution, marketing and public relations.

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