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Report: Global Sustainable Investment Assets Grew by a Third in 2 Years
The U.S. was the second largest region based on its value of sustainable investing assets, which grew from $8.7 trillion in January 2016 to $12 trillion in January 2018, an increase of 38%. Assets managed under sustainable strategies made up more than a quarter of total professionally managed assets.
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- impact investing
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Women-owned startup Ellevest raises $33 million from Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, PayPal, others to help women achieve their financial goals
Ellevest was founded in 2014 by Charlie Kroll and Sallie Krawcheck with a mission to close the gender-investing gap. Ellevest helps women achieve their financial goals through modern, low-cost investing, with a beautifully designed digital platform backed by a unique investing approach.
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Press release: New Guide from MMI and TIIP Helps Financial Advisors Integrate Sustainable Investment into Their Practices
The guide, entitled “Fundamentals of Sustainable Investment: A guide for financial advisors,” addresses pervasive industry myths about sustainable investing, disentangles the complicated web of vocabulary used to describe the approach, and provides practical recommendations on how to help clients reach their sustainable investing goals.
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- ESG, impact investing
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Impact Investments Under Management Total $502 Billion
The broad market for sustainable investing practices, which includes investing in public companies with best practices against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics, was pegged at about US$12 trillion in 2018, according to the The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.To date, the only sense of the impact investing market’s size was the GIIN’s annual investor survey,
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Nuclear power excluded from EU’s green investment label
Tabled a year ago, the green taxonomy is the most sensitive part of a European Commission plan on sustainable finance, which aims at shifting financial flows towards the decarbonisation of the economy.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- ESG, impact investing, public policy
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Here’s why Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma and other investors are pouring billions into clean-tech ventures
The $1 billion Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, founded by Gates, Bezos and other philanthropists, has invested in 14 companies involved in everything from battery storage to fusion energy.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: Funds Are Flowing From Philanthropy to Investments; Is This A Good Thing?
The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) currently face an annual funding shortfall of $2.5 trillion. Investors can go some way to bridging that gap, says Standard Chartered.
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Press release: Bain Capital Double Impact Makes Flagship Community Building Investment in Rural Sourcing
Bain Capital Double Impact, the impact investing business of Bain Capital, today announced it has acquired a majority stake in Rural Sourcing, a leading provider of onshore outsourced digital technology and IT services that taps talent located in small and mid-size cities across America.
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- Investing, Technology
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- impact investing