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New Platform Aims To Attract Reluctant Impact Investors
For impact investing to grow, a critical mass of mainstream funders needs to embrace it. Helping to make that happen is the goal of ClearlySo ATLAS, a recently announced platform with which private equity investors can assess the impact of their portfolio companies. The underlying framework is geared to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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ESG demand grows despite performance doubt
Interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is set to grow despite no hard evidence on how it influences performance, according to Kelsey Biggers, head of investment risk at Franklin Templeton.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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A huge public pension fund faces an agonizing decision: Should it reinvest in tobacco?
Sixteen years ago, CalPERS, the nation’s largest public pension fund, vaulted to the forefront of the social investing movement by voting to dump its $671 million in tobacco stocks.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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Next Up for Impact Investing: ‘Solve for Market Demand, Not Investor Preferences’
Pioneers in the impact investing field have always wanted to take the movement mainstream. Well, they're getting there. Attendees at the Global Impact Investing Network's Investor Forum 2016 in Amsterdam, when compared to the 2013 forum in London, included more fund managers, more wealthy family advisors and large foundations, more big money people. Now comes education for the bigger players eager to get involved.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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How to Make Money With Impact Investments
Curt LaBelle, managing partner at the Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF), a $108 million private-investment fund structured by J.P. Morgan Chase and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, says the key is to look for companies producing high-volume, low-cost products, mostly in health, education, agriculture, and renewable energy.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Some of the Best Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) Stocks of 2016
There's been a growing movement for investors to care not only about their own financial gain but also about the good of their community. The movement often is called SRI, which stands for socially responsible investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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South Africa: Chinese Enterprises Help Improve Living Standards of South Africans
A report released Thursday shows that Chinese enterprises in South Africa are making positive contributions to the socio-economic well-being of the country. According to the report on the development of Chinese enterprises in South Africa unveiled by the South Africa-China Economic and Trade Association, there are more than 300 Chinese companies including representative offices in South Africa and among them about 140 are large and medium-sized companies.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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B Lab Honors World’s Leading Impact Investors Using New GIIRS System
B Lab, in partnership with B the Change Media, announced today the honorees of the 2016 Best for the World Funds, celebrating 50 impact investment funds that have created exceptional social and environmental impact, including in areas of microfinance and technology.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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