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Tata Trusts’ FISE to raise $30 mn to fund social startups
The fund claims to be the country’s first-ever technology-focused fund investing in high-impact social enterprises. Called Social Alpha Fund-1, it is the third tier of the Social Alpha stack being built with Tata Trusts and the Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (FISE), said Manoj Kumar, co-founder and chief executive of FISE.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Why Financial Advisors Are Still Reluctant to Jump on ESG Bandwagon
Asset managers and major brokerages think there’s big money to be made shilling these funds to advisors, with the likes of BlackRock, Bank of America and UBS highlighting the growing acceptance and mainstream popularity of SRI and “impact investing” strategies.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Perspective: Private equity investors can help Africa to feed itself
The private sector has a greater role to play in socioeconomic growth in Africa than ever before.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Dangote to invest $450m on agriculture in Niger
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the President, Dangote Group on Monday disclosed that the company would invest $450million in agriculture development in Niger State over the next three years.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Transforming Waste Management, and Waste-Pickers’ Prospects, in Bengaluru
In February, Ennovent Global's Impact Investment Holding invested in Hasiru Dala Innovations, a Bengaluru-based company offering waste management services. The firm's initiatives, centered on the circular economy principle, provide waste management and urban gardening services and products, and also help ensure the livelihoods of waste-pickers, improve facilities for Bengaluru residents and divert over 90 percent of waste from landfills.
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- Environment, Investing, WASH
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IIX’s Women’s Livelihood Bond Officially Listed on the Singapore Exchange
The US$8 million debt security will impact over 385,000 women in Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines through enhanced access to credit, market linkages, and affordable goods and services that will build women’s resilience to socio-economic shocks and stresses.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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How to engage investors focused on profit in solutions for the poor
Folia Water created the first water filter that costs pennies not dollars, said Levine, whose company tagline is “Paper for Pennies. Water for Billions.” Each silver nanoparticle-coated filter paper provides clean drinking water to a family for an entire week. In a pitch to Silicon Valley investors, he focused primarily on the financial returns, explaining how his product presents a cheaper alternative to bottled water for the 3 billion people who spend $20 billion per year on household water.
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Business co-financing: an alternative approach to realize SDG1
There is significant interest in the donor community in using private sector partnerships to help realise SDG1. Such partnerships have typically focused on donors providing funds to a business. Businesses are asked to put forward a new business activity which will increase household incomes.
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- Investing
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