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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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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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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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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Opportunity Zones knocking, but few investors answering the call so far
The breaks are meant to steer money to parts of the country that have long been starved for capital, creating jobs and economic growth.
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S&P is rolling out socially-minded index
S&P Dow Jones Indices will launch an environmental, social and governance version of its S&P 500 Index. The move’s an effort to meet increased investor demand for sustainable-investment vehicles based on U.S. equities.
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Press release: IIX awarded S$1.2M from Australian government to develop ecosystem for gender lens investing in Asia
With a decade of experience building the impact investing market and driving women’s empowerment across the world, IIX will leverage its ecosystem and gender-focused approach to support the growth of 500 impact enterprises across Asia.
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- Asia Pacific
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WisdomTree Launches India Ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund
The fast pace of reform throughout India has made it easier for many firms to piggy-back on the tailwinds provided by the significant growth of the overall economy.
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- South Asia
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Press release: OPIC announces investing milestone as portfolio for impact reaches $100 million in commitments
OPIC, the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, first launched Portfolio for Impact (PI) in 2014 as pilot program to support promising impact investments that might struggle to raise capital because they are small or early-stage. Since that initial launch, OPIC has committed more than $100 million across 22 projects that are supporting small farmers and small businesses in emerging markets, and expanding access to food, education, healthcare, technology, financial services and clean water.
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- Investing
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