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How to Raise Trillions for Green Investments
Saving our planet from the worst effects of climate change won’t be cheap. A new report from the United Nations says that the world will need to mobilize $90 trillion in public and private capital over the next 15 years.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Morgan Stanley Introduces New Tool Kit to Effectively Integrate Gender Diversity Criteria Within an Investment Portfolio
Investors seeking opportunities to effectively integrate gender diversity criteria within an investment portfolio now have access to a new framework to help translate social change and greater gender equality into an actionable plan for investing.
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- Investing
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Small-Scale Fishers Get A Big Boost With First-Of-Its Kind Impact Investment Fund
At the Our Ocean Conference, hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington, D.C. today, Rare CEO Brett Jenks and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) CEO Naoko Ishii will be jointly announcing the development of the Meloy Fund for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in Southeast Asia. The GEF, one of the largest funders of conservation worldwide, will be investing $6 million into the fund.
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- Asia Pacific
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Global Family Office Report Reveals Impact Investing Has Come of Age
A remarkable 62% of family offices are now active or expect to be active in impact investing, the new Global Family Office Report by Campden Wealth in partnership with UBS reveals.
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- Investing
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In 2014 29 Orgs Committed $1.5 Billion to Impact Investing. Where’s the Money After 18 Months?
I got the call from the White House, in May 2014. “We’re going to have some major new commitments of impact investment capital at the meeting in June. Would you be interested in helping us track how the money is spent?”
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Why TPG’s Rise Fund could redefine impact investing
The New York Times (NYT) reported on Monday citing unnamed sources that TPG Growth is setting up a social impact fund. It is dubbed the Rise Fund and aims to invest more than $1 billion over time.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Impact Labs Launches First-of-a-Kind Algorithmic Socially Responsible Portfolio-Generation Software
Introducing: Socially-Selective℠ Investing. If you feel strongly, for example, about climate change, equality, sustainability, gun control, and dozens more, now you can have your values reflected in your investment portfolio. The software builds a properly diversified investment portfolio while optimizing for social value andmaximizing after-tax performance.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology
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Blackrock: Climate Change Is Going to Move a Huge Amount of Money and Not Enough People Are Paying Attention
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with almost $5 trillion (£3.7 trillion) in assets, said that all investors need to factor climate change, and the investment needed to halt it, into their future risk-assessments.
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- Environment, Investing