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Refugee Investment Network Launches to Connect Investors and Refugee Entrepreneurs for an Inclusive Future
On World Refugee Day, RIN gathers investors, entrepreneurs, humanitarian leaders, and donors to bridge the gap between capital and refugee-owned or -supporting ventures
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A Landmark Impact Investment: Could This Innovative Experiment with Islamic Finance Provide a Model for Both Sectors?
Impact investing and Islamic finance are two segments of the socially responsible finance spectrum that rarely intersect – despite having much in common. But according to Umar Moghul, a transactional lawyer with experience in Islamic law, a recent impact investment by Mission Driven Finance in Somali Family Service of San Diego offers an example of how the two sides can come together to boost their mutual impact.
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Investors See ‘Material Risk’ in Ignoring ESG
Asset owners expect environmental factors will be more material than traditional financial criteria in the next five years, according to a UBS survey.
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Harvard Course Teaches Rich Millennials How to Do Good (and Make Money)
The graduates represent a quiet insurgency among the world’s wealthy millennials. As their peers march to protest climate change and inequality, these privileged few are arming themselves with the skills and arguments they need to convince their families -- often against bankers’ advice -- to make more “impact investments” that are designed to benefit society as well as turn a profit.
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Millennials Are Changing the Future of Investment and Here’s How
Despite their reputation for laziness, most of them work hard and feel strongly about wanting their work to be meaningful and bring huge returns.
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Temasek’s Philanthropy Arm Sets up Fund for Impact Investing in Asia
The fund will focus on themes such as financial and digital inclusion, better health and education, climate and water solutions, sustainable food and agriculture, and smart and liveable cities.
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- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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You Can Now Invest in a ‘Racial Justice’ Index Fund
The new “Racial Justice” criteria joins more than a dozen other causes promoted by OpenInvest’s indexing technology—which allows investors to prioritize values including gender equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, and ethical supply chains and also combat issues like fossil fuels, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions, among others.
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- ESG, fintech, impact investing, startups
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UK Seeks to Boost Impact Investing Sector With New Initiative
“By combining the energy, supporter base and achievements of these two groups, the institute aims to provide a focal point for impact investing in the UK to accelerate the potential for finance to address social challenges,” a statement on the institute’s website reads.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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