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New Impact Investing Benchmarks to Arrive
The global-investment firm Cambridge Associates will unveil in a couple weeks real-asset impact-investing benchmarks in real estate, infrastructure, and timber. The new benchmarks “focus on the financial performance of the private funds, categorizing them by year and size,” says Jessica Matthews, managing director at Cambridge Associates.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Embrace Your Liberalism, Impact Investing: A Q&A with a ‘Biblically Responsible Investor’
Inspire Investing, a leader in the “Biblically Responsible Investing” movement, recently launched two funds targeted at conservative Christians. The funds, which screen out companies that participate in abortion, gambling, alcohol, pornography or “the LGBT lifestyle,” attracted $42 million in assets in just the first two weeks, demonstrating a clear appetite for alternatives to the “politically liberal agenda" of most SRI funds, Inspire founder Robert Netzly says in this podcast. Should traditional SRI just accept this growing politicization and embrace its liberal roots?
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- Investing
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The case against ethical investing
Don’t get me wrong: I’m a huge fan — to a problematic degree, some might argue — of socially responsible companies. That said, giving up on ‘good’ companies and embracing the 'bad' and the 'ugly' has its merits – both from a financial standpoint and an ethical one.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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A new asset class is gaining ground as investors turn socially and environmentally conscious
In one of its latest efforts to raise funds, Singaporean real estate developer City Developments Limited issued a green bond — a fixed income product with proceeds used to finance projects or activities that help the environment.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Ford Foundation Sends Message to Those Still on Impact Investing Fence: A Q&A with Darren Walker
Earlier this month, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker announced the 81-year-old organization is putting "our money where our mouth is" and investing $1 billion over the next 10 years in affordable housing and financial services for people in developing countries. In this email Q&A, Walker talks about why the foundation made the shift and the signals he hopes it sends.
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- Investing
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MoneyOnMobile plans to invest US $100 million in Mumbai startup
MoneyOnMobile, a Dallas based fintech Investment Company plans to invest about US $100 million in the Mumbai–based pre–paid mobile wallet and remittance service startup, My Mobile Payments Limited (MMPL).
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Impact investor Acumen to launch India-dedicated fund
Global impact investor Acumen is planning to launch an India-dedicated fund, as the investor looks to double down on its most significant geography, said a senior executive of the firm.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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Trump Wants To Cut An Agency That Helps Small Farmers — And Makes Money For U.S. Taxpayers
Donald Trump doesn’t know my colleague Richard Tugume. Richard has spent the last decade traveling around East Africa investing in early-stage businesses. Businesses like Furaha, a coffee cooperative that received and later repaid a loan that, in the end, generated a profit for American taxpayers. So you can imagine my surprise when I discovered that President Trump’s budget blueprint threatens to eliminate the very source of this investment capital and the benefits that it delivers.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- North America
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