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Impact Investing and COVID-19: A Moment for Growth or a Flight From Risk?
The impact investing community is grappling with how the coronavirus crisis will affect growth and how entrepreneurs searching for capital in low-income countries will fare.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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Impact Investor Networks Collaborate to Tackle Covid-19 Fallout
A broad group of impact investing networks supported by several foundations has created a coalition to leverage their combined expertise and capital, and to speed up the information flow on financing needs, to tackle many of the consequences that have surfaced from the coronavirus pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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Press Release: CapShift Releases Covid-19 Relief and Response Report
Impact investments can complement grantmaking and accelerate recovery efforts by making more capital available to communities in need.
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- Press Release
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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GIIN Launches Impact Investing Coronavirus Taskforce
Impact investing giants from across the globe are joining forces to fight the devastating and widespread economic and social consequences of COVID-19.
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- Investing
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Press Release: DOMINI Launches the Domini Sustainable Solutions Fund to Help Tackle Global Sustainability Challenges
Domini Impact Investments LLC, a U.S. pioneer in the impact investing field, is pleased to announce the recent launch of the Domini Sustainable Solutions Fund, a new mutual fund dedicated to investing in innovative, solution-oriented companies contributing solutions to global sustainability challenges.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Downturn Signals Opportunity for Climate-Aligned Investing
Demand for sustainable ETFs has grown since the market downturn. Recent analysis from BlackRock highlights how sustainable ETFs keep attracting assets, in comparison with traditional ETFs, which are experiencing outflows in light of the market selloff. As of March 24, net inflows to sustainable ETFs had reached $14 billion, exceeding half of the 2019 total amount.
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- Coronavirus, Environment, Investing
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Press Release: ImpactAssets Launches Impact Investing COVID Fund in Response to Activated Investors and Philanthropists
ImpactAssets, a nonprofit impact investment firm that invests in funds and companies that create social and environmental return alongside of financial return, today announced the launch of the ImpactAssets COVID Response Fund, a hybrid of rapid-response charitable giving and flexible impact investing with an initial capacity of more than $1 Billion in investment opportunities.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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Where to Invest in Africa in the Face of COVID-19
As Africa heads towards recession, it’s not easy to know where to invest. Akinyi Ochieng and Isaac Kwaku Fokuo, Jr. highlight three areas that are likely to fare better during the downturn
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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