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4 Growth Trends in Impact Investing
As impact investing continues to show strong growth as a sector, the Sustainable Development Goals are fast emerging as a reference for an ever-diversifying range of actors seeking guidelines on how to invest for impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing, SDGs
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CalPERS Opts to Keep Ban on Tobacco Stocks
CalPERS said no again to tobacco Monday. Amid a passionate debate on the wisdom and morality of investing in tobacco, the big California pension fund rejected a recommendation by its staff to end its 16-year-old ban on the practice. CalPERS’ investment committee, in a 9-3 vote, concluded that the tobacco industry is heading toward long-term decline and presents too much of a risk
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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Survey Shows Slight Decline In Consumer Enthusiasm For Socially-Conscious Spending
Attention social enterprises selling consumer products and services: U.S. shoppers are somewhat less interested in buying socially responsible stuff. That's the finding of a study from Good. Must. Grow, a socially responsible marketing firm.
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- Impact Assessment
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Viewpoint: Moving Beyond the Tradeoff Debate in Impact Investing
At Omidyar Network, we are bullish on impact investing. But we’ve also been frustrated by some of the rhetoric we hear, especially the ongoing — almost ideological — debate about whether there is a necessary tradeoff between financial returns and social impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Investors Sharpen Focus on Social and Environmental Risks to Stocks
Pfizer stock was riding high in June 2015, up 128 percent in five years, making it the second-most valuable American drug maker. Nine out of 10 Wall Street research analysts recommended that investors hold it in their portfolio, if not buy more.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Cash-Poor Millennials Lead the Impact Investing Revolution in Philanthropy
Socially and environmentally conscious Millennials are reinventing philanthropy by merging traditional foundations with profit-making endeavours and social enterprises, a new report says.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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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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