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The Hitachi Foundation Launches the Good Companies, Good Jobs Strategy; Makes $11 Million in Gifts as it Prepares to Close
The Hitachi Foundation today announced the launch of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Strategy that includes three final gifts totaling $11 million and that the Foundation will cease operations in December 2016. The unrestricted monetary gifts and their recipients are $4 million to the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC; $4 million to the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and $3 million to Investors' Circle in Durham, North Carolina.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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Viewpoint: Africa Needs More Healthcare Real Estate Investment Trusts
Healthcare real estate investment trusts are becoming more attractive on the continent as African countries try to build up a listed real estate industry, according to Ortneil Kutama, media director of pan-African real estate industry news website, Africa Property News.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Investors aren’t sold on ‘values-based’ investing, but they may be missing out
Investing with your conscience may not your thing, but it's working for people who know where to look. So-called "values-based" investing — putting money into companies with strong track records on the environment, social issues and corporate governance — has increased among major money managers.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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How impact investing can reach the mainstream
Nearly ten years have passed since a coalition of philanthropists and investors introduced the financial-services industry to impact investing, a practice distinguished by its aim to generate social and environmental benefits alongside financial returns.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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Raising The Bar For ESG Investing Expectations
For years, many investors assumed that choosing environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing came with a cost—a performance shortfall. Based on our recent survey, that picture has changed.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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The Surprising State of Equity Crowdfunding Post-JOBS Act
From savings to banking to investing… finance is moving online. With this, we’re seeing the disruption of venture capital brought about by new laws that may change the game for how entrepreneurs can raise funding and who can invest.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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The State of Impact Investing in India
If there is one thing the government’s ongoing demonetisation drive has amplified, it’s the yawning gap that exists in India between the privileged and the underserved. In that context, it seems appropriate that the country hosted its first convention on impact investing this week. Put together by the Impact Investors Council in partnership with the ministry of external affairs, the convention saw 175 limited partners and fund managers from the impact investing universe converge in New Delhi.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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Impact investing in India could touch $6-8 billion by 2025: McKinsey
McKinsey & Co. says impact investing in India has the potential to grow from $1 billion worth of investments in 2015 to $6-8 billion by 2025. According to McKinsey, the Indian impact investment space has seen $4.1 billion worth of cumulative investments in the past six years. The pace of investment is growing at 15% annually, it said.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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