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Future Returns: Green Bonds on the Rise
The volume of outstanding green bonds—both “labeled” and “unlabeled”—has reached around US$2 trillion, according to Stephen Liberatore, a managing director at TIAA’s Nuveen and manager of the TIAA-CREF Social Choice Bond Fund.
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- Environment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Almost Half of Institutional Investors Consider ESG in Investment Decisions
Public beats private in ESG adoption, according to Callan’s latest report on the topic, meaning “public plans have incorporated ESG factors into the investment decision-making process at a higher rate than their corporate counterparts.”
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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BlackRock ‘Breaks New Ground’ With Circular Economy Fund
The partnership with Ellen MacArthur Foundation aims to raise awareness of circular opportunity in financial sector.
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- Investing
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Charting the Next Decade in the Global Small and Growing Business Sector: A Q&A with ANDE Executive Director Randall Kempner
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, a membership organization of investment groups, NGOs and business ecosystem advocates, recently marked its 10th anniversary. As it approaches a second decade moving the global small and growing business sector forward, ANDE announced a new strategy that focuses on gender, the environment and job creation. We spoke with Executive Director Randall Kempner about what the future holds for ANDE and the global SGB sector.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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‘Empty Promises’ Could Pop Bubble of Investing for Good
“The risk is that people are branding themselves as an impact investment to attract new investors but in reality nothing changes,” said Marilou van Golstein Brouwers, former chairwoman of the investment arm of Dutch ethical bank Triodos.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Morningstar Ratings to Begin Incorporating ESG Risk Next Month
According to Morgan Stanley report, the only statistically significant underperformance of sustainable strategies occurred nearly a decade ago.
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- Investing
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- ESG
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Bit by Bit, Socially Conscious Investors Are Influencing 401(k)’s
So-called E.S.G. funds still make up a small fraction of these workplace retirement plans, but they are gaining ground. The broad category of sustainable and responsible investing grew 38 percent in the United States from 2016 to the start of 2018, to $12 trillion in assets under management, according to the US SIF Foundation.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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An Impact Investing Model Designed for Africa: Why the Continent Should Embrace Search Funds
According to Brendan J. Mullen of Secha Capital, there's a little-known but perfectly suited investment model for Africa's emerging markets: search funds. Often vehicles for young, aspiring entrepreneurs to finance, acquire and grow established SMEs, search funds trust the local market by directing capital to where it’s most needed. As Secha launches a new $30 million fund, Mullen shares how investments in both growth and human capital are yielding impressive returns.
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- Investing
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- impact investing, scale, startups
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