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Are Financial Returns Starting to Compete with Social Goals? An Impact Investor Assesses its Involvement in Off-Grid Solar
In the second of two posts, Oikocredit's Laura de Bresser assesses the social and environmental value of its off-grid solar investments: Is achieving financial returns starting to compete with social impact? Here's what the investment firm discovered about whether it's really helping people and the planet – and whether it should continue investing in this market.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Can a UN social impact fund spark further reform at the organization?
A new fund to boost smart affordable housing options in Bangladesh is one of the first major announcements from the UNDP’s SDG Impact Finance initiative — an enterprise that took UNDP’s David Galipeau four years to convince the U.N. it needed.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Study: Investors Choose Sustainability for Better Returns
The 2017 Schroders Global Investor Study of 22,100 people who invest across 30 countries found the majority of them view sustainable investing as a way to generate profits and not just potential positive impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Press release: Symbiotics Partners with TriLinc Advisors Ahead of SOCAP17
“Symbiotics is very happy to partner with TriLinc, as an innovative impact investing manager based out of the United States, having built a model to reach the missing middle in emerging and frontier markets,” said Roland Dominicé, CEO of Symbiotics. “Our shared goals and vision create a natural alignment for our investors and target markets; we look forward to continue financing their operations and sharing on this experience at SOCAP this year.”
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG
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Seven Lessons From A Decade Of Impact Investing
Impact investors have funneled more than $100 billion into projects designed to make money by doing good, and $8 billion of that flowed into projects that improve the way we manage land. AlphaSource Advisors has been in the impact space for over a decade, and they’ve learned a few things along the way.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Funding struggle: Can Liberia’s controversial privately-run schools pilot continue?
Some funders are also said to be questioning the program after an independent evaluation released earlier this month showed mixed results for the public-private partnership’s first year. While researchers of the randomized control trial reported impressive learning gains among students, they also raised concerns about the program’s cost-effectiveness and its potential to negatively impact non-participating schools in the country.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World Bank warns of ‘learning crisis’ in global education
“This learning crisis is a moral and economic crisis,” World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said. “When delivered well, education promises young people employment, better earnings, good health, and a life without poverty. For communities, education spurs innovation, strengthens institutions, and fosters social cohesion. But these benefits depend on learning, and schooling without learning is a wasted opportunity."
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Viewpoint: Generational Musings on Impact Investing: Are They Worth the Paper?
Millennials fall between 20 and 37 years of age; this is still a young generation and, as such, an idealistic group. Research shows that as families grow and people get older, their investing strategies change. Saving the whales might sound good to a twenty-year-old, but the financial burden of children and aging parents may influence a forty-year-old to focus on financial return.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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