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New U.S. Impact Investing Platform’s First Issuer Has Something For Everyone
“We’ve always been focused on how do we make impact investing accessible to Wall Street and Main Street,” says Adam Spence, CEO of SVX Canada. Relaunched about a year ago, that platform connects accredited and non-accredited impact investors with social ventures in Canada.
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- North America
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- impact investing
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Robo-advisor Nutmeg launches socially responsible investment portfolios
Nutmeg is the latest robo-advice investment firm to join the growing socially responsible investing movement by launching a new portfolio range.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, research
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Signs That Institutional Investors May Be Reorienting Towards Sustainable Investing
For a long time entrepreneurs, investors and advocates of sustainable investing have spoken longingly about the $2 trillion of institutional investor dollars that have been reputed to be sitting skeptically on the sidelines, teasing everyone with the prospect of finally putting their sizeable investment muscle to work to scale the sector.
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- ESG, impact investing
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China’s Impact Investment? That’s Mainly a Project for Foreign Investors
Companies may view reporting as a compliance exercise rather than a meaningful part of their strategic and risk-management thinking. They may focus only on good news. Or they may simply misunderstand what information investors want, a point underscored in several presentations in the Chinese capital.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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OPIC commits $50 million to global partnerships’ impact-first development fund
Many of the most inclusive and impactful solutions to poverty are fully sustainable, but not highly profitable. This fund will focus on delivering highly inclusive and highly impactful products and services that commercial markets fail to support.
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- North America
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Investing’s Final Frontier: Impact Measurement
In general, each type of social return calls for its own metrics to answer this basic question: Is this social impact investment/initiative having the intended effect?
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Survey: ESG Investing On The Rise at Nonprofits
The SEI Nonprofit Management Research Panel polled 105 organizations in October, including 75 that were nonprofits, and 30 others representing corporate, union or government retirement plans as part of the Institutional Investors Sustainable Investing Survey 2018.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, nonprofits
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Press release: New Gender Lens Investing Tool Helps Drive Capital to Mutual Funds Supporting Gender Equality
Gender Equality Funds screens the specific holdings of about 5,000 of the most commonly-held U.S. mutual funds—including financial giants like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street—against a database detailing individual company performance on 12 key gender equality performance indicators. These 12 indicators measure policies that demonstrate a commitment to gender diversity and gender balance in the overall leadership, management, and workforce of companies, combining into an overall gender equality portfolio score for each mutual fund.
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- Investing