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Viewpoint: Moving From A***Hole Investing to Investing
Daniel Madhavan, the CEO of Impact Investment Group, shares three things he doesn’t like about setting an allocation for impact investment and why it’s useless to put “impact” into a single unified bucket of delicious goodness.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Impact Investment Favours Expats Over African Entrepreneurs. Here’s How to Fix That
Village Capital found that 90% of the capital invested in East Africa in 2015-2016 went to a very small group of expatriate-founded businesses.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, startups
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Viewpoint: Opportunity Zones Can Drive Development Of US Renewable Energy
Opportunity Zones give both individuals and corporations the chance to re-invest existing capital gains into Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds (“QOFs”) in order to receive tax breaks for helping fund investment in impoverished areas.
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- North America
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Titans Linebacker Derrick Morgan Retires From NFL And Launches $200 Million Opportunity Zone Fund
Morgan is taking his OZ investing a step further to ensure it has both a financial profit and positive social impact, or a double bottom line, as it’s known.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Treasury Risks Dropping the Ball on Opportunity Zones Accountability
The die will be cast when the Treasury Department releases final regulations governing Opportunity Zones. It’s up to Treasury to weigh these risks against the potential returns for our communities.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Viewpoint: How Donor-Advised Funds Can Amp Up Their Giving Power
When you think of donor advised-funds or sustainable investing, you probably don’t think of a 1,600% gain in a single investment. But that’s exactly what happened for investors in ImpactAssets’ donor-advised fund.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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Chronic, Not Acute: The Refugee Crisis Needs Long-Term Solutions – And Social Enterprise Can Help
It’s time to stop addressing the global refugee crisis with short-term emergency measures, and to start seeking long-term solutions, says Thane Kreiner at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. One of those solutions is entrepreneurship, and Kreiner shares five lessons from the Center's Social Entrepreneurship at the Margins (SEM) accelerator program for businesses serving or led by refugees and other displaced people. The Center is selecting its second SEM accelerator cohort, and applications are open worldwide until August 23, 2019.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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SEC Commissioner’s Speech Rankles ESG Industry
The speech, which took on environmental, social and governance ratings and proxy voting especially, was seen by some in the impact investing business as anything from surprisingly uninformed to a call to action for the ESG industry to do better.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing