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Ethical Investment Tide Lifts ‘Greenwash’ Concerns
Investors are plowing ever more into ethical funds to back their views on issues such as global warming and gender equality, but such investments can be confusingly similar to standard funds, except for higher fees and 'green halo' marketing. The $23 trillion "sustainable, responsible and impact" (SRI) investment sector has received a rush of money since the Paris climate agreement and, more recently, in protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to slash environmental regulations.
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- Environment, Investing
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- North America
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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. This is a guide to impact investing for everyone else, the 98 percent of the population who don’t meet the criteria for investing with the wealthy.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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India: IFC to provide up to $20m debt to RGVN Microfinance
IFC (International Finance Corporation), a member of the World Bank Group, will provide up to $20 million to RGVN (North East) Microfinance Ltd in the form of a senior debt investment, according to an IFC disclosure.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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Durreen Shahnaz wins Oslo Business for Peace Award
Durreen Shahnaz, an investment banker and media executive-turned-social entrepreneur from Bangladesh, has won the Oslo Business for Peace Award 2017 for transforming the way financial and capital markets are moving beyond profit maximising to maximising purpose and impact.
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- Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- impact investing
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India’s Fortis Healthcare said to mull buyout of Singapore-listed RHT Health Trust
Fortis Healthcare Ltd, India's second-largest private hospital chain by market value, is weighing a buyout of the Singapore-listed business trust that owns some of its clinics, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Asian Development Bank and Credit Access Asia Sign $32 Million Deal to Improve Financial Inclusion in Asia
The Asian Development Bank signed a €30 million ($32 million) equity investment agreement with CreditAccess Asia, a holding company headquartered in Amsterdam, that operates microfinance institutions across Asia, currently serving approximately 1.8 million customers, 99.8% of whom are women.
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- Investing
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Latin America impact investors set sights on social returns
After six weeks at the Aravind Eye Hospital in the Indian city of Madurai, talking to everyone from the janitors to the head of the low-cost eye-care centre, Javier Okhuysen and his partner flew back to Mexico City with a business plan, and opened their pilot eye clinic four months later.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Latin America
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- ESG, impact investing
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500 Startups launches fund to invest $10M for entrepreneurship in Latin America
Seed funding and networking guru 500 Startups launches its second Latin American Regional fund to bring $10 million in commitment to Spanish-speaking startups. The fund, Luchadores II, will be first anchored by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), and has plans to invest in over 120 companies through the Mexico City-based LatAm 500 Seed Program over the next 2 years.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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