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These super-rich families are investing their fortunes to help others
The idea is similar to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's The Giving Pledge, which requires signatories to give away at least half their wealth. But this is about investing for good.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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More Evidence of Solid Performance From Sustainable Funds
Investors in funds that incorporate environmental, social, and governance factors into their process appear not to suffer a performance penalty.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Why ESG Investing Needs More Precision and Clarity
It’s hard to believe that roughly 26% of professionally managed money worldwide is pegged to environmental, social and government strategies (ESG). At the surface, this seems like an unrealistically high number, given that asset managers have offered scant details about how they define their ESG criteria. So, where does the truth lie? The short answer is we don’t know, and the reality is it probably doesn’t matter.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Rockefeller Foundation, Nonprofit ETF Plan to Expand ESG Strategies
With a secured $300,000 grant from one of the nation’s foremost philanthropies, Impact Shares will be launching the first of its innovative social issue-related ETFs in late 2017, according to a note.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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OPINION: Socially responsible investing an expensive taste
Other benefits like peace and a livable planet notwithstanding, the financial cost of socially responsible investing appears to be high.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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World’s first social impact bond achieved goals and repaid investors
But experts warn that the success of the One Service in Peterborough does not necessarily mean the SIB model will work elsewhere.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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To Fix the Gender Gap, Fix the Digital Divide
Most job growth will come from STEM fields, yet women make up only 12 percent of engineering students. That’s why MIT’s new Solve initiative launched a Women and Technology Challenge asking for technology-fueled solutions that enable women and girls’ full participation in the economy. Selected solutions will receive support from cross-sector leaders interested in investing in innovative social impact projects – the Solve challenge deadline is Aug. 1.
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- Education, Finance, Impact Assessment, Technology
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U.S. Impact Investing Alliance Launches to Scale the Practice of Impact Investing
The Alliance was founded last year by representatives from philanthropy, business and finance to champion the potential of impact investing by increasing awareness of impact investing in the U.S., fostering deployment of and demand for impact capital across asset classes globally, and by partnering with policymakers and other stakeholders to build the impact investing ecosystem.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- North America
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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