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Guarantees Transforming Impact-Investing Finance
“Guarantees are underutilized in impact investing, and hence there’s great potential for scaling their use,” says Abhilash Mudaliar, director of research at the GIIN.
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- Investing
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International Finance Corporation to invest USD $21 million in Grameen Koota
The renewed trust by these marquee investors is expected to provide more comfort to local lenders who finance MFIs for on-lending.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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New Job Board Feature – FREE Access to NextBillion’s 100,000 Twitter Audience
NextBillion's job board is one of the most active career resources in the social business and global development space – and it's one of the most popular features on the site. We're making it better by tweeting out all new job posts to our fast-growing Twitter audience of approximately 100,000 – for free. To post a job ad, or find a career with impact, visit the job board today.
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How Oil, Coal and Wal-Mart Became Part of ‘Socially Responsible’ ETFs
As demand for do-gooder investing increases, particularly among women and millennials, fund managers are retooling their lineups to include diversified funds that appeal to a wider audience.
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- North America
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Press Release: Calvert Foundation Announces Capital Aggregation Investment Business
Calvert Foundation today announced a new business line, Capital Aggregation, which expands Calvert Foundation's existing services to more actively aggregate and facilitate capital to meet the evolving needs of the communities they serve.
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- Investing
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India To See $40 Billion Worth Impact Investments By 2025: Global Network
India is projected to see impact investments worth up to US $40 billion by 2025 as the country is in a "sweet spot" with high potential to deliver solutions for various problems, according to global grouping GIIN.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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OPEN IMPACT launches to help Canadian investors find their social and environmental impact – and bring impact investing to the mainstream
OPEN IMPACT, an online resource to help investors find financial investment products that make money – and make the world a better place – launched today at www.openimpact.ca
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Athena Publishes Research on Constructing Impact Portfolios
Athena Capital Advisors, a registered investment adviser that provides investment management, advisory, and outsourced CIO services to private clients and institutions, has released new research on a framework for constructing diversified, multi-asset class investment portfolios that seek both financial and social return.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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