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We do not expect any returns from impact investing: Sunil Kant Munjal
Sunil Kant Munjal, the Hero Enterprises, has invested Rs 100 crore in impact investment in firm Aavishkaar's new fund, Aavishkaar Bharat Fund. The investment, made in Munjal's personal capacity, is part of the Rs 2,000-crore corpus that the social venture capital firm is targeting for its new investment vehicle.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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IntelleGrow in talks to raise $100m via debt, equity in next few months
With its eyes set on doubling its assets under management to Rs 640 crore ($99 million) this year, venture debt firm IntelleGrow is in talks with investors to raise $100 million through debt and equity.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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- ESG, impact investing
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India: Hero Enterprises to invest $15.5m in Aavishkaar Bharat Fund
Hero Enterprises today announced a Rs 100 crore ($15.5 million) investment in impact investor Aavishkaar’s new fund, the Aavishkaar Bharat Fund. Aavishkaar Bharat Fund is the investor’s sixth fund, and is a SEBI registered Category II Alternative Investment Fund.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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ImpactUs Welcomes First Issuers to its Impact Investing Marketplace
Financial technology provider ImpactUs today announced the onboarding of the first issuers to its impact investing platform, ImpactUs Marketplace. The Marketplace is a community-driven full-service platform offering institutions, individuals and financial advisors an extensive range of private impact investing opportunities.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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Snack-bag of African nuts feeds ambitions of Montreal entrepreneurs
“Bring back some precious stones or money,” Thamarah Mathurin told her partner, François Boisrond, when he left home in 2014 to set up an export venture in Africa. However, the Haitian-born entrepreneur found the continent’s gemstone trade too precarious, unregulated, and too dangerous in some countries for business investment.
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- Investing
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- North America
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New Impact Investing Benchmarks to Arrive
The global-investment firm Cambridge Associates will unveil in a couple weeks real-asset impact-investing benchmarks in real estate, infrastructure, and timber. The new benchmarks “focus on the financial performance of the private funds, categorizing them by year and size,” says Jessica Matthews, managing director at Cambridge Associates.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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The case against ethical investing
Don’t get me wrong: I’m a huge fan — to a problematic degree, some might argue — of socially responsible companies. That said, giving up on ‘good’ companies and embracing the 'bad' and the 'ugly' has its merits – both from a financial standpoint and an ethical one.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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A new asset class is gaining ground as investors turn socially and environmentally conscious
In one of its latest efforts to raise funds, Singaporean real estate developer City Developments Limited issued a green bond — a fixed income product with proceeds used to finance projects or activities that help the environment.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing