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Africell to Spend $100M on Mobile Infrastructure, Fintech in Africa
Africell founder and chief executive Ziad Dalloul told Reuters the money would help fund infrastructure investments for its operations in Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia and Sierra Leone.
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- Finance, Investing, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Asset Manager Schroders Acquires Majority Stake in BlueOrchard
Asset managers have been increasing their focus on environmental, social and governance issues, in response to demand from investors such as pension funds.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Press Release: World Bank Group Mobilizes Over $14.4 billion for Latin America and the Caribbean Development in Fiscal Year 2019
“We have stepped up our efforts in the last 12 months to help the private sector in Latin America and the Caribbean carry out new projects that are focused on solving some of the region’s most critical development challenges,” said Georgina Baker, IFC Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean. “We are working closely with the private sector in the region to help mitigate climate change, create more jobs, more affordable housing, better transportation options, and more livable cities,” she said.
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- Investing
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- Latin America
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Ethic Picks Up New $13 Million Series A Funding
With the growth of sustainable investing — the U.S. Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing said strategies grew 38% from 2016 to 2018, to $12 trillion in assets — Lipman sees environmental, social and governance investing mimicking the growth of ETF investing a decade ago.
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- Investing
- Region
- North America
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Press Release: Ethic Secures $13M in Funding to Accelerate Transition to Sustainable Investing
Investors are increasingly seeking products that enable them to align their portfolios with their unique values. In this regard, pooled investment vehicles, such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), typically fall short. Ethic addresses this need by enabling the creation of personalized investment portfolios at a very large scale.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Counterpoint: Critics of ESG Funds Are Wrong — Sustainable Investing Delivers Competitive Returns
Sustainable investing now represents one in four dollars of the $46.6 trillion in U.S. assets under management.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Point: ESG — or Socially Responsible — Funds May Soothe Your Conscience but Could Weaken Your Portfolio
I have always been opposed to socially responsible investing — that is, investing with the aim of making a political statement — in the public pension environment.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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ResponsAbility Investments Backs Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets With $175M
The sum was raised through the issuance of U.S. Dollar dominated-debt securities maturing in 3 years to institutional investors.
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- Investing
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