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Your Guide To Impact Investing
For more than four years, I’ve been covering impact investing as a regular Forbes contributor and have written hundreds of pieces about the space. Here’s the thing: most impact investments are only open to wealthy people.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Multilateral Investment Fund Supports Creation of Impact Investing Fund for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay
The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), member of the IDB Group, is supporting the creation of an Impact Investing Fund for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, seeking to trigger the flow of local and international capital for investments in early stage impact companies operating in those countries. The MIF will act as anchor investor in this Fund.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Latin America
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Vanderbilt Financial Group Introduces New Impact Investing Think Tank, Website: Impact U
Vanderbilt Financial Group will host their Annual Sales and Compliance Meeting on Thursday October 27th, and launch their newest project, Impact U. Impact U will house original content, in the form of interviews, videos, e-books, and podcasts with Impact Experts and Enthusiasts on a communal platform to spread the impact investing movement.
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Why One Indian Entrepreneur Is Investing In Smart Villages, Not Smart Cities
Varun Chandran grew up in a village in rural India. Till his late teens, he didn’t know what the Internet was. Now, he’s running a startup, Corporate360, that works with IT clients around the world. The global community, he says, should invest in smart villages as much as they are in smart cities.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Eaton Vance Dives Into Social-Impact Investing With New Acquisition
Eaton Vance has agreed to acquire the assets of the impact-investing firm Calvert Investment Management, a move that would give it a large presence in the growing field of socially and environmentally responsible investing.
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Quark Venture, With Help From China, Sets Up $500M Life Sciences Fund in Canada
Investment co Quark Venture and China’s GF Securities are setting up a global $500 million life sciences fund in what the pair are describing as the largest of its kind in the country.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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Eli Lilly Plans $90 Million Investment to Improve Health Care in Poor Areas
Eli Lilly and Co. wants to improve access to health care for 30 million people in impoverished areas across the world.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Seattle Accelerator Capria Boosts Fund Managers in Emerging Nations
A housecleaner-on-demand service in Cape Town, South Africa, has created 400 jobs and plans to keep growing across the African continent. A young gourmet tea business in Johannesburg is bringing high-end drinks to customers while supporting small, local farmers.
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- Investing