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IFMR Investment to raise Rs 550 crore for financial inclusion space
Kolkata: IFMR Investment Managers Pvt Ltd is aiming to raise a minimum Rs 550 crore from long term investors keen to exposure to the country’s growing inclusive finance space. The Chennai-based company, wholly owned by IFMR Capital, has unveiled two debt funds and expects domestic institutional investors such as insurance companies, banks and non-banking finance companies to invest in them. About 10% of the issue is kept for private wealth funds.
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Impact investing in the age of President Trump
If implemented, the president's policies could have a profound effect on issues that resonate with a growing number of investors: the environment, social issues and corporate governance.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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WCCN Invests in Pro Mujer to Support Women In Latin America
A fund to counter the effects of the U.S. government's controversial “global gag rule” has raised around $190 million, it was announced at a conference in Brussels today, as development leaders said it would not be possible to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals without access to family planning services.
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- Latin America
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As Funds Invoke Bible Values, Others See Intolerance
Serving both God and money has long been an aim of fund companies that exclude “sin stocks” of companies dealing in tobacco, guns, gambling and the like in their investments.
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How Social Entrepreneurs Begin To Measure Impact
There are two keys to becoming a good social entrepreneur. Intentionality, that is intending to have a positive social impact rather than merely delivering one incidentally, is how you become a social entrepreneur. Accountability, measuring the impact, is how you become an effective one.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Impact businesses in India are attracting investments with healthy returns
Businesses that tap a large number of customers in the lower-income bracket and are established with a clear social objective are increasingly becoming an attractive asset class in India, as they are globally. In India, while rural micro-credit, and then urban microfinance, saw growth and success over the last two decades, these businesses are now coming to the fore in a growing number of verticals and catching serious investor interest.
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Does Social Activism Divert Funds From Investments To Philanthropies?
Throughout the last three months, as activists resisted policy changes on immigration, trade and the environment, donations to the American Civil Liberties Union, the Sierra Club and other nonprofits reportedly spiked. But the trend wasn't entirely unexpected.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- philanthropy
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Enthusiasm for SRI Is Driving Changes In Wealth Management Units
At The Economist’s Impact Investing conference last week, Andy Sieg, the new leader of Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch Wealth Management said the “herd”—a moniker for the firm's network of more than 15,000 advisors—has never been as interested in socially responsible investing as it is now.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing