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Viewpoint: For the Perfect Social-Impact Investment, Look No Further Than Cannabis
Perhaps the final unhappy irony of cannabis prohibition is that the plant is a benign substitute for many problematic products and raw materials.
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- ESG, impact investing
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Press release: New report from Toniic provides evidence that investors are going farther, faster and deeper into impact, while meeting their targeted financial and impact returns
Toniic, the global action community for impact investors, is running a longitudinal study of portfolios in its 100% Impact Network. T100: Powered Ascent, the second report tracking these portfolios, compiles data from 76 private portfolios totaling $2.8 billion in committed capital.
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Press release: Deetken Impact makes landmark investment in Pro Mujer Mexico to scale its services for women
Pro Mujer, a mission-driven social enterprise focused on empowering women and their families in Latin America, announced today that its subsidiary, Pro Mujer Mexico SOFOM (Sociedad Financiera de Objeto Múltiple), has received $1 million USD in exchange for its issuance of preferred shares to Deetken Impact, a Canadian-based boutique asset management firm.
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Insitor, Oikocredit lead seed round in Kolkata-based Aashiyaan Housing Finance
Journalist Swaminathan Aiyar, Columbia University professor Neeraj Kaushal and others also participated in this round, said Aashiyaan. Boutique investment bank Unitus Capital was the financial advisor to Aashiyaan for this transaction.
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Press release: Lidya Raises $6.9 Million in a Series A Round Led by Omidyar Network
Lidya, the digital financial services platform focused on improving access to credit for micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Africa, today announced that it has raised $6.9 million in a Series A investment round, one of the largest in Nigerian tech history
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital finance, fintech, MSMEs
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Advisory services firm Intellecap appoints insider as CEO
Intellecap said in a statement that Bali will be responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company across businesses and geographies.
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FINCA’s Journey from Non-Profit to For-Profit
For a company to make money, it helps if its employees have a money-making mindset. But that’s not what Roman Hingorani found when he joined FINCA International as its CFO in 2015.
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Accounting For Impact Alongside Market Returns
The KL Felicitas Foundation, founded by impact investing pioneers Charly and Lisa Kleissner, has opened the books on its investments to show that a strategy aimed at doing good can live up to its social and environmental objectives as well as deliver returns.
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- North America
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- impact investing