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Future Returns: Investing With a Gender Lens
Gender lens investing strategies have boomed in recent years, fueled by the #MeToo movement, increased awareness about how women often are treated, and a recognition that companies benefit when diversity and inclusion is fostered.
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Viewpoint: Shut Up, Ask Questions and Embrace the Struggle: Jed Emerson’s Plea to Impact Investors
Jed Emerson has never been afraid to tell it like it is. Now, after 30-odd years of exploring impact and purpose-driven capital – and eight books later – he believes the field has become ‘lazy’, offering superficial answers to humanity’s most difficult questions as we skip straight to the ‘how’ of tactics and strategy.
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HBS, Impact Investing And The Power Of Story – The Rise Fund’s Maya Chorengel
She has been an instrumental force in proving that delivery of positive impact can exist alongside competitive financial returns, mobilizing the investing market to advance social and environmental benefits at scale.
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Inside the Quest to Measure the Impact of Impact Investing
This is the kind of valuation challenge impact investors have been grappling with for years. Purely financial investments come with an accepted methodology for measuring return on investment. But with investments in projects or organizations working to deliver social or environmental impact, there’s no shared accounting framework for measuring the value of what’s been achieved.
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Study: 94% of Investors Ready for Impact in Next 1-3 Years
KBIGI, which boasts a long-standing commitment to responsible investing has published the findings of a new global Impact Investing study, exploring investor views on what it calls the Public/Private approach.
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Generation Closes $1b Growth Fund Targeting Sustainable Startups
Today, Generation is announcing that it has closed a $1 billion Sustainable Solutions Fund for growth investments. As the name implies, it plans to put the $1 billion to work backing later-stage startups that work on sustainability in at least one of three areas.
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Rockefeller Foundation Aims to Make Tax Perk Work for Poor
The Rockefeller Foundation is set to announce Tuesday that it will hand out $5.5 million to help six U.S. cities promote “responsible” investment in areas designated as opportunity zones.
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Press Release: Bamboo Capital Partners Appointed as International Fund Manager by the Government of Haiti and the World Bank for USD$17 Million Energy Access Fund
The objective of OGEF is to electrify 200,000 households in Haiti within the next 10 years. At present, less than one in three Haitian households have access to electricity, which is often unreliable. In rural areas, electrification rates are as low as 5%.
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