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Pearson Launches New Investment Fund, With Focus on Tech and Workforce Skills
“Whether it is a student seeking help with math homework, or an adult seeking a master’s degree, we know learners need education that is convenient, flexible and life changing,” Jonathan Chocqueel-Mangan, the chief strategy officer at Pearson, said in a statement. “We also know education will look different in the future, so finding new business models, incorporating emerging technologies into our products and seeking new partners for collaboration is becoming more important than ever.”
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Press release: OpenInvest Launches Place-Based Impact Investing
The platform's new cause allows charitable foundations, endowments and other institutions to target their investments to companies making a positive social, economic or environmental impact in particular geographies.
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Press release: 60 Investors Commit to Manage Over $350bn In Assets In Line With New Impact Principles
The organizations adopting the Principles collectively hold over $350 billion in assets invested for impact, which they commit to manage in accordance with the Principles. Future investments for impact will also adhere to the Principles. The Principles provide a clear common market standard for what constitutes an impact investment, addressing concerns about "impact-washing."
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Press release: WaterEquity Announces Closing of Its US$50 Million Flagship Impact Investment Fund
Founded by actor Matt Damon and social entrepreneur Gary White, WaterEquity's funds invest in a portfolio of financial institutions and enterprises in emerging markets—enabling them to scale, meet increasing market demand, and deliver access to safe water and sanitation.
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Press release: Aligned Intermediary awarded grant to support Climate Finance Partnership
The consortium has jointly committed to develop a flagship blended private infrastructure equity fund for climate infrastructure projects and companies in emerging markets. The fund aims to be one of the biggest blended vehicles to-date targeting climate-related investments in developing countries.
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Viewpoint: Nipsey Hussle’s Lessons For Investors
It’s incredibly tempting to claim Hussle as an impact investor, given the way he spoke so clearly about the critical importance of recycling money into communities for systemic change.
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Workers want those hard-to-find socially responsible investments in their 401(k) plans: Survey
A new survey finds that 61% of workers would increase their retirement savings if they could put their money in socially conscious investments. The same survey also found that just 13% of workers have access to those kinds of impact investments.
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Cathay Innovation and AfricInvest to Raise $168m Africa VC Fund
Barrier could not say when the fund would be closed, but did confirm investments could come as early as summer 2019. He expects to see strong local showing for startups from across Africinvest’s 10 country offices in Abidjan, Algiers, Cairo, Casablanca, Dubai, Lagos, Nairobi, Paris, Port Louis and Tunis. The firm will open an office in Johannesburg in the near future, according to a company release.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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