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5 Trends Driving the Future of Sustainable Investing
“Why can’t my investment portfolio reflect my personal values?” We’re increasingly hearing that question from clients who want to pursue sustainable investment strategies that align their personal values with their investments. According to Morningstar, assets in socially screened portfolios now exceed $6 trillion, up from $639 billion in 1995. Demand for sustainable investments seems particularly important to the millennials that represent the next generation of investors for advisors. A Morgan Stanley survey of individual investors highlights this coming demand, as 71% of respondents and 84% of millennial investors expressed interest in sustainable investing.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Price for TB Drug Too High, Unaffordable, MSF Says
International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have expressed concern over the high price announced for new tuberculosis (TB) drug, delamanid.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bitcoin to the Rescue in Venezuela?
Venezuela may not have much milk or toilet paper these days, but it does boast some of the latest cutting edge financial technologies. Bitcoin, the virtual currency system that sidesteps traditional banking intermediaries to conduct financial transactions, is increasingly becoming the payment method of choice for a group of Venezuelan entrepreneurs. Is this a vote of confidence for virtual currencies in developing countries? Or desperate times breeding financial innovation in a crumbling economy? Perhaps a bit of both.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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OPIC and Greenlight Planet Partner to Expand Off-Grid Energy Access in the Developing World
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. government’s development finance institution, signed an agreement withGreenlight Planet to finalize $5 million in OPIC financing to support the scaling up of Greenlight Planet, Inc, a provider of affordable off-grid solar energy systems to homes and businesses across the developing world. Greenlight Planet’s global development starts with a passion for delivering clean, affordable energy to underserved communities, paired with a sustainable business and distribution strategy. Today, they impact 15 million users across 40+ countries.
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- Energy
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GSMA and Mobile Operators Launch Initiative to Extend Mobile Money and Mobile Internet to Women Globally
The GSMA today announced the launch of the Connected Women Commitment Initiative, aimed at reducing the mobile gender gap. Initial commitments by GSMA operator members, with over 75 million mobile internet and mobile money customers, will aim to connect millions more women in low- and middle-income countries by 20201. These operators will seek to increase the proportion of their female customers to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. This builds on the 15 million women already benefiting from female-focused services offered by the GSMA’s Connected Women operator partners.
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- Technology
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Japanese Company Produces Fastest Vaccines Using Tobacco Leaves
Japanese pharma company Mitsubishi Tanabe has developed a vaccine production process using tobacco leaves which allows it to manufacture the vaccines at one sixth of the time taken normally, Japanese financial daily Nikkei reported Tuesday.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- vaccines
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Bill Gates’s Clean-Energy Moon Shot
It’s hard to think of a tougher challenge than accelerating humanity’s transition to nonpolluting energy sources and limiting global warming, especially in a world with abundant fossil fuels and fast-growing energy needs.
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- Energy, Technology
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Where Ideas for Social Enterprise Take Wing
A graduate from Oxford University, Manas Nanda's dream was to make a social change. He found his way back to his roots by starting 'Harvest Wild', a social enterprise, with an aim to create livelihood opportunities for people living in remote forest areas in India. It was at IIM-Bangalore's incubation cell, NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), where his idea of bubble nut wash was mentored.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- South Asia
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