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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announces $170 mln investment to boost women’s economic empowerment
The investments, focussed in India, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, are aimed at advancing gender equality, spreading digital financial inclusion, increasing job opportunities, and supporting the agricultural sector
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Press release: OPIC unveils 2x Women’s Initiative to mobilize more than $1bil to invest in the world’s women
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) today unveiled its global 2X Women’s Initiative, which will mobilize more than $1 billion to projects that support women in developing countries, unlocking the multi-trillion dollar investment opportunity women represent. The announcement was made at the 8th Annual International Women’s Day Forum, hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Big Investors Have Clout. They Can Use It With Gun Makers.
Over the past several weeks, there has been a lot of talk about investors ridding themselves of their shares in gun manufacturers and retailers after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. A number of public pension funds, like those in the state of Connecticut, have discussed the prospect of selling their shares.
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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JPMorgan Quants Develop Model for Socially Responsible Investing
Strategists at the firm have built an “ESGQ” quantitative metric that combines a company’s long-term corporate responsibility score with faster-moving data that isolates newsflow on potential controversies. The analysis then tracks momentum in the ESG scores to measure changes in market sentiment and price behavior.
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- North America
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Taking the Mystery Out of Impact Investing
The 2017-18 guide includes funds with a collective US$29.2 billion in assets, up from US$10.6 billion a year ago, reflecting an “overall increase in interest and capital in this area,” says Jed Emerson, a senior fellow at ImpactAssets.
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Press release: Labor Lens Investing: Promising New Investment Tools to Improve Global Supply Chains
Consumer goods are most often produced far from where they are purchased, successively changing hands along complex and sometimes opaque supply chains. Over the years, cases of labor exploitation have been well documented in almost every industry—from agriculture to construction, and apparel to electronics. The International Labour Organization estimates that forced labor generates US$51 billion in illegal profits annually.
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Press release: Global Venture Capital Investment in Fintech Industry Set Record in 2017, Driven by Surge In India, US and UK, Accenture Analysis Finds
Fintech financing rose 18 percent in 2017, to US$27.4 billion, with the value of deals in the U.S. jumping 31 percent, to $11.3 billion. Deal values almost quadrupled in the U.K., to US$3.4 billion, and soared nearly fivefold in India, to US$2.4 billion. The number of fintech deals also rose sharply, from just over 1,800 in 2016 to nearly 2,700 in 2017, underscoring continued appetite from investors scouring the globe for innovation in insurance, banking and capital markets startups.
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A closer look at impact investing
The mistaken rap on this kind of “social” investment is that returns are weak and realizing them takes too long.
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- South Asia
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- ESG, impact investing