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Swiss PE Partners Group launches debut impact fund with $1b hard cap
“In terms of size of investments, in line with typical PG deal sizes, it would be a $100 million to $1 billion total equity cheque from Partners Group – managed funds and/or a $200 million to $2 billion enterprise value. PG LIFE will invest alongside other Partners Group funds,” a spokesperson from the private equity firm told DEALSTREETASIA.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Tackling Poverty Close to Home: Why Acumen is Boosting Financial Health in the U.S.
More than 40 million Americans live below the poverty line, and a majority live paycheck to paycheck. That's why, after nearly two decades and over $110 million of impact investments in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Acumen has expanded its focus to include the United States. Amon Anderson and Sarah Willis discuss how Acumen America, through its financial inclusion portfolio supported by MetLife Foundation, aims to build a future where low-income Americans enjoy stability, protection and prosperity.
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- Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Impact investor Quona Capital plans to raise $150-200 million Fund III
While fintech remains the broader theme for Quona going forward, the company plans to broadbase its investment portfolio across sectors that can leverage fintech to deliver everyday needs in areas such as education, healthcare and insurance and small business.
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- South Asia
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MENA startup data platform closes $1 million seed funding round
Having released over 20 reports since inception, a core focus of the MAGNiTT platform is education through data-driven analysis for its subscribers. The platform currently hosts 5,500 start-ups, over 12,000 users including over 300 individual investors and more than 150 funding institutions, be VCs or Angel Investors.
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- Press release
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- Investing
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- North Africa & Near East
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Asia emerges as a strong market for impact investing
Asia’s integration into the impact investing scene is further reinforced when South Korea joined the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing, youth
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What Happens When You Invest In Entrepreneurship At The Margins
There are countless ways that distressed communities in the US differ from the remote areas where my organization, Root Capital, operates. But they have at least this in common: They have an acute need for investment. And we need more gatekeepers of capital to take up that challenge.
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- North America
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Living Right: Buen Vivir Fund Heralds a More Democratic Kind of Impact Investing
“The Buen Vivir Fund,” notes Reines, “has created a system, referred to as Aportes, whereby borrowers make a solidarity contribution of their choosing that will remain in the fund for current and future projects. The structure of Aportes contrasts with the conventional investment operation of interest, in which money is paid at regular intervals at a particular rate and accrues earnings for the purpose of increasing return on investment to investors.”
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- Investing
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Danone’s debut social bond attracts healthy appetite
Proceeds will be used to fund projects backing notably responsible farming, local projects dedicated to empowering communities and social entrepreneurs or healthy food entrepreneurship, it said in a statement.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- ESG, impact investing