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Why Women Should Not ‘Invest Everywhere’: The Trouble with Gender-Blind Investing
As an impact investor interested in gender equity, Pique Venture CEO Bonnie Foley-Wong recently shared a call to action on LinkedIn encouraging investors to focus more money and attention on women-managed funds. She soon faced some pushback from a male impact investor, saying that women shouldn’t just invest in other women, they should invest everywhere. She explains why that advice is not as simple as it sounds.
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Donor-Advised Funds Grow in Popularity as Tools for Impact Investing
Donor-advised funds, a fast-growing way to make charitable contributions, may be the propellant needed to fire up impact investing, a practice that is growing but is viewed by some as having unfulfilled promise.
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Viewpoint: Missing The Forest For The Trees: Can Impact Investing Shift Its Focus To Where The Big Money Lives?
Put simply, the Principles will provide transparency into impact investors' commitment to impact.
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Why are Investments Surging in Off-Grid Energy? A Q&A with Wood Mackenzie’s Benjamin Attia
In partnership with Energy 4 Impact, Wood Mackenzie recently released "Strategic Investments in Off-grid Energy Access: Scaling the Utility of the Future at the Last Mile." Among its many headlines, the research found that total annual investment in the off-grid energy access sector surpassed $500 million in 2018 for the first time. To find out what's fueling it and what it means for the millions living off the power grid, we spoke with Benjamin Attia, a research analyst at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and an African solar PV markets expert.
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Press Release: LeapFrog Breaks Impact Investing Record, with $700M (EURO 623 Million) Emerging Markets Fund
“As pioneers of commercial impact investing, our goal over the last decade has been to build truly differentiated investment vehicles, that present a compelling opportunity for top-tier investors to access emerging markets – and fulfill their financial and purpose objectives,” said Nick Moon, LeapFrog Partner and Head of Investor Relations.
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Press Release: OPIC Signs Agreement With Banco Regional to Support Women-Owned, Small and Medium Businesses in Paraguay
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, today recognized a $138 million commitment to Banco Regional to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), especially women-owned SMEs, in Paraguay. Citibank will provide an additional $11.5 million to Banco Regional to support SMEs.
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Unshackled Ventures Has $20m to Invest Exclusively in Immigrant Founders
Immigrants looking to start their own businesses face a huge barrier. Take Jyoti Bansal for example. He famously waited seven years before launching AppDynamics, a business that later sold to Cisco for $3.7 billion days before its initial public offering. Why? Because as an Indian immigrant with H-1B visa status, he could work for startups but wasn’t legally allowed to start his own.
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More Advisors Bringing Up ESG Investing With Clients
Financial advisors are being put under pressure to learn more about responsible investing, and many are stepping up to the challenge, according to Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA.
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