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We do not expect any returns from impact investing: Sunil Kant Munjal
Sunil Kant Munjal, the Hero Enterprises, has invested Rs 100 crore in impact investment in firm Aavishkaar's new fund, Aavishkaar Bharat Fund. The investment, made in Munjal's personal capacity, is part of the Rs 2,000-crore corpus that the social venture capital firm is targeting for its new investment vehicle.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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The First Group Of Healthymagination Social Entrepreneurs Look Forward to Changing the World
The idea behind the Healthymagination Mother and Child Programme, being run by GE and the Santa Clara University's Miller Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, is to empower small business owners to develop ways of improving maternal and child healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa. According to the One Organisation, a woman's lifetime risk of maternal death is 1 in 180 in developing countries such as those in SSA and it is 1 in 4,900 in developed countries. SSA recorded the highest number of child deaths globally with about 3-million in 2015.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IntelleGrow in talks to raise $100m via debt, equity in next few months
With its eyes set on doubling its assets under management to Rs 640 crore ($99 million) this year, venture debt firm IntelleGrow is in talks with investors to raise $100 million through debt and equity.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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- ESG, impact investing
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ImpactUs Welcomes First Issuers to its Impact Investing Marketplace
Financial technology provider ImpactUs today announced the onboarding of the first issuers to its impact investing platform, ImpactUs Marketplace. The Marketplace is a community-driven full-service platform offering institutions, individuals and financial advisors an extensive range of private impact investing opportunities.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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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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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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Four Ways to Bring Evidence into Education Policy: Lessons from IPA’s Work in Emerging Markets
Evidence-based policymaking makes sense, but can be hard to achieve. To help better understand the issues involved, IPA has compiled summaries of evidence highlighting education policy lessons. Here, Heidi McAnnally-Linz and Bridget Konadu Gyamfi detail four strategies the organization is pursuing in different contexts, all of which are leading to a greater understanding of evidence – to varying degrees of impact so far.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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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
- Region
- South Asia
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