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Point: ESG — or Socially Responsible — Funds May Soothe Your Conscience but Could Weaken Your Portfolio
I have always been opposed to socially responsible investing — that is, investing with the aim of making a political statement — in the public pension environment.
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- Investing
- Tags
- ESG, impact investing
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ResponsAbility Investments Backs Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets With $175M
The sum was raised through the issuance of U.S. Dollar dominated-debt securities maturing in 3 years to institutional investors.
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- Investing
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Melinda Gates Pushes G7 to Close Digital Gender Gap in Africa
G7 finance ministers meeting in France are to endorse a paper from the Gates Foundation saying there is a serious risk that digital technology and mobile banking will bypass millions of women in Africa, leaving them disempowered for a generation.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: BBOXX Unveils New Initiative to Help Tackle the Global Clean Cooking Crisis
Mansoor Hamayun, CEO and Co-founder, BBOXX, said: “The BBOXX Cook initiative in Rwanda is an exciting step for us as a next generation utility. We are showing that our model works: the technology that we have used to provide access to clean, reliable and affordable electricity is being expanded to include clean cooking solutions and we have big ambitions to deliver other utilities and products in new markets.”
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- Press Release
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PayPal Fires up “Ripple-Killer” Xoom App for International Payments
The mobile payments app offers next-day money transfers at fees lower than its main payments platform PayPal. According to the website, transfers on Xoom cost around $4 in Europe and $9 to countries further afield.
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- Finance
- Region
- Europe & Eurasia
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Viewpoint: Moving From A***Hole Investing to Investing
Daniel Madhavan, the CEO of Impact Investment Group, shares three things he doesn’t like about setting an allocation for impact investment and why it’s useless to put “impact” into a single unified bucket of delicious goodness.
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- Investing
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Singapore’s CredoLab to Power Digital Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
CredoLab’s alternative credit scoring solution comes at a critical juncture in the region’s focus on financial inclusion.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: Impact Investment Favours Expats Over African Entrepreneurs. Here’s How to Fix That
Village Capital found that 90% of the capital invested in East Africa in 2015-2016 went to a very small group of expatriate-founded businesses.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- impact investing, startups
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