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Green Bonds: A Surging Market for Socially Responsible Investing
The green bond market could double in size this year, boosted by issuance from China and U.S. corporations like Apple.
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- Environment, Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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New Calvert Study Highlights Financial and Social Benefits of ESG Integration
Calvert Investments and Harvard Business School’s Serafeim suggest investors can benefit from the evaluation of companies’ environmental, social and governance efforts.
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- Investing
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Survey: Big U.S. Donors Losing Faith In Charity To Solve Problems
Seven out of 10 high-net-worth (HNW) Americans have more confidence in the private sector to solve social and environmental problems than the public or nonprofit sector.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Perspective: The Rapid Mainstreaming of Impact Investing
Amid all the noise about impact investing it can be difficult to get a clear read on what counts as fact or fiction. Yet each year the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) makes a critical contribution in the form of its comprehensive investor survey.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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U.S. Tech Giants Flock to Africa to Compete for Digital’s “Final Frontier”
Not so long ago, Big Business saw Africa as a charity case. Much of the investment by multinational corporations across the continent was geared more toward burnishing corporate sustainability programs—building schools, planting trees, offering occasional internships—than gearing up for future growth. Today the picture has changed radically. In the past few years, U.S. technology companies have begun to invest heavily in Africa.
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- Investing, Technology
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Making Markets Work for the Poor: How the Gates Foundation Uses Program-Related Investments
At the insistence of Bill himself, the foundation made its first “program-related investment” in 2009. Since then, it has made nearly 50 loans, equity investments, and guarantees to further the foundation’s charitable purpose, totaling more than $1 billion. In the last seven years, the world’s largest foundation has become one of the world’s largest impact investors.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Uber Kenya and Sidian Bank Launch $100M Vehicle Solutions Programme
Uber and Sidian Bank announced today that they have partnered to launch an innovative Uber Vehicle Solutions Programme that will give driver-partners and business investors convenient and affordable access to the quality vehicles they need to start or grow their Uber-based businesses. This comes shortly after Uber celebrated 1 million rides taken in Kenya since its launch just 15 months ago.
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- Investing, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AIG to Sell Crowdfunding Insurance, Looking to Make Money Off Investors’ Worries
American International Group is giving crowdfunding a try. Not to raise money for startups, but to profit off investors’ concerns about being ripped off as they invest in small businesses through this new type of funding.
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- Investing
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- North America
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