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U.K. government pledges support to expand impact investing
The U.K. government will work with the financial services industry to help make impact investing easier, including potential changes to pension fund law.
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G7 DFIs Aim to Mobilize $3 Billion to Invest in World’s Women
A major new commitment was announced today by the development finance institutions (DFI) of the G7 to mobilize $3 billion by 2020 for investment in business activities that will benefit women. The 2X Challenge: Financing for Women (‘2X Challenge’), is an ambitious target that calls on DFIs to mobilize their own funds, as well as private capital, to unlock resources that will help advance women as entrepreneurs, as business leaders, as employees and as consumers of products and services that their enhance economic participation.
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Viewpoint: Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?
The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. But are we scaling the right model?
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OPIC Provides $5 Million in Financing to Grameen Impact Investments India
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) announced that $5 million in local currency financing has been mobilized to Grameen Impact under an OPIC loan guaranty agreement with India’s IndusInd Bank.
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- South Asia
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Annual GIIN survey reveals dynamic and diverse impact investing market
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has published the eighth edition of its Annual Impact Investor Survey, which reveals that the impact investing industry is growing steadily.
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Impact Investors Hold US$228 Billion in Assets
While not comprehensive, the annual survey “represents the largest exercise of its type in the market,”says Abhilash Mudaliar, the GIIN’s director of research.
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‘Playing patient investor, Omidyar has not made many exits from $1.3B portfolio’
Philanthropic impact investor Omidyar Network has invested close to $1.3-billion in non-profit and for-profit ventures globally since it was founded in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. But an investment principal at the fund confesses that the funder’s “patient” approach to funding means it has made few exits so far.
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CARE Enterprises and Bamboo Capital Form For-Profit Subsidiary
Bamboo Capital Partners and CARE Enterprises announced a strategic partnership, focused on businesses serving people living in poverty in South and Southeast Asia.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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