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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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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact 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
- Region
- 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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- impact 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
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Asia’s rich investors embrace social-impact investments
Asia's millionaires are the most socially conscious investors among their global peers, according to a new report.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing, research
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Is It Time for OPIC to Own Up?
Addressing today’s development challenges requires a massive mobilization of capital and resources that the current setup of development finance is ill-equipped to provide.
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- Investing
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Report: $90 Trillion Infrastructure Investment Could Combat Climate Change
The world will need to more than double its current infrastructure stock over the next 15 years – a massive undertaking which could either contribute to or combat catastrophic climate change – according to a new report.
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- Investing
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African Development Bank to Launch an Africa Investment Forum
The Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the institution's proposal to launch an 'Africa Investment Forum (AIF)'--a meeting place for investors interested in Africa.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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