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Waterfield Advisors to Launch $15M Development Impact Bond for India’s Farm Sector
In a first in the country, Mumbai-based wealth advisory firm Waterfield Advisors will soon launch a $15-million Development Impact Bond (DIB) for the farm sector.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- South Asia
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How Pacific Life Lost Its Bet on Socially Minded Millennials
In surveys, people in their 20s and 30s say they’re eager to invest in line with their values, but the short life of Swell suggests that the financial services industry has been wrong about how ready they are to do so -- and how prudent it is to help them try.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, youth
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Getting Past Doubt: Finding Better Ways for Multinationals and SMEs to Intersect
Developing countries have become increasingly important to multinational companies, with foreign direct investment often outpacing development aid. Meanwhile, the 400 million micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises in these countries are facing a wide variety of obstacles to growth. The new Catalyzing SGB Acceleration initiative, launched by TechnoServe and the Argidius Foundation, aims to find common ground between those two worlds. Juan Carlos Thomas and Annie Shoemaker at TechnoServe discuss the new project.
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- Investing
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Turning Impact Intention into Impact Evidence: How to Put the GIIN’s IRIS+ Metrics into Action
Accounting for impact is notoriously difficult. And though impact investors have long turned to the GIIN's IRIS metrics as a standardized measurement tool, as SoPact co-founder Hetal Sheth points out, the IRIS metrics don't make impact strategy actionable. Now that the GIIN has reintroduced its standards with IRIS+, Sheth explores how the new metrics improve on the previous version – and how SoPact’s Impact Cloud platform can help investors use them to build a robust impact management strategy.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Africell to Spend $100M on Mobile Infrastructure, Fintech in Africa
Africell founder and chief executive Ziad Dalloul told Reuters the money would help fund infrastructure investments for its operations in Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia and Sierra Leone.
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- Finance, Investing, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Asset Manager Schroders Acquires Majority Stake in BlueOrchard
Asset managers have been increasing their focus on environmental, social and governance issues, in response to demand from investors such as pension funds.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Press Release: World Bank Group Mobilizes Over $14.4 billion for Latin America and the Caribbean Development in Fiscal Year 2019
“We have stepped up our efforts in the last 12 months to help the private sector in Latin America and the Caribbean carry out new projects that are focused on solving some of the region’s most critical development challenges,” said Georgina Baker, IFC Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean. “We are working closely with the private sector in the region to help mitigate climate change, create more jobs, more affordable housing, better transportation options, and more livable cities,” she said.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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Ethic Picks Up New $13 Million Series A Funding
With the growth of sustainable investing — the U.S. Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing said strategies grew 38% from 2016 to 2018, to $12 trillion in assets — Lipman sees environmental, social and governance investing mimicking the growth of ETF investing a decade ago.
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- Investing
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- North America