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Latin America impact investors set sights on social returns
After six weeks at the Aravind Eye Hospital in the Indian city of Madurai, talking to everyone from the janitors to the head of the low-cost eye-care centre, Javier Okhuysen and his partner flew back to Mexico City with a business plan, and opened their pilot eye clinic four months later.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Latin America
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- ESG, impact investing
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How Water.org ‘Took a Leap of Faith’ into Social Impact Investing
As we recognize World Water Day, Water.org is launching a $50 million fund, targeting enterprises in India, Indonesia, Cambodia and the Philippines that help the poor meet their water and sanitation needs – with a particular focus on MFIs. This seven-year fund, managed by the nonprofit's WaterEquity initiative, aims to reach at least 4.6 million people at the BoP, while offering pre-tax financial returns of 3 percent.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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JP Morgan asset management creates sustainable investing team
JP Morgan Asset Management has formed a leadership team to create a sustainable investing strategy and help clients achieve their environmental, social and government investment goals.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Are Sustainable Funds More Expensive?
Socially responsible investing, also known as sustainable, impact, or ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investing, has been steadily growing in popularity in recent years. A year ago, we launched the Morningstar Sustainability Rating for funds to help investors measure to what extent any mutual fund's portfolio aligns with ESG principles.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Impact Investing Growing Among Alternative Managers
Impact investing is growing in importance among the alternative investing community, according to a new survey by the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Viewpoint: How billionaire philanthropists could really make an impact
Tom Hall of UBS argues that if the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg were to put their money into impact investment instead of grants they could make a real contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy, SDGs
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Pension funds are key to Africa’s transformation — and city officials can help
Africa has seen over two decades of rising investment, including an exponential rise in foreign direct investment that has rebounded from the 2008 global financial crisis. But this investment is not accompanied by the requisite economic and social transformation that would allow the poorest countries to provide their citizens with the same type of sustainable opportunities seen in developed countries.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- ESG, impact investing
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SOCAP Group Announces The Good Capital Project, Expands Vision with New Leadership and Capital
SOCAP, is proud to announce it will be spinning out of its former MissionHUB LLC ownership. Earlier this year, Robert J. Caruso, Founder & Managing Partner of Kantian Social Ventures led the investment round with a group of mission aligned impact investors and innovators to allow SOCAP to independently ramp up its efforts to spread awareness of market based solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, curate thought-leadership in the space, and educate impact market participants. SOCAP will begin expanding its brand reach to larger, more mainstream audiences and enhance its consumer engagement practices to help bring impact investing into the mainstream consciousness.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing