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U.S. Impact Investing Alliance Launches to Scale the Practice of Impact Investing
The Alliance was founded last year by representatives from philanthropy, business and finance to champion the potential of impact investing by increasing awareness of impact investing in the U.S., fostering deployment of and demand for impact capital across asset classes globally, and by partnering with policymakers and other stakeholders to build the impact investing ecosystem.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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An insurance giant is shifting $130 billion into ethical investments
The world's second-largest reinsurer is 90 percent of the way through shifting its holdings from tracking traditional benchmarks, a process it expects to complete by the end of the third quarter in 2017.
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- Investing
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Investing with ‘green’ ratings? It’s a gray area
There are no set criteria for who is bad and who is good and so-called ESG ratings vary widely, meaning investors may be less protected than they think, for example, from a scandal over labor practices or board pay. "We don't have a common vernacular," said Asha Mehta, director of responsible investing at Acadian Asset Management in Boston.
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- Investing
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CleanCapital Closes $4 Million Series A To Make Institutional Investors See Green
“By streamlining the acquisition of high quality, clean energy projects, CleanCapital is able to pass through the benefits to its investors,” said Patelli in a release.
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- Environment, Investing
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MetLife Releases Annual Corporate Responsibility Report
The report, titled Global Impact, includes information on MetLife’s leadership on climate issues and social impact investing as well as our efforts to make our products more accessible and easier to use, enhance customer service, and improve employee wellness. It also details our accomplishments in workplace diversity and MetLife Foundation’s work to improve financial inclusion.
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- Financial Inclusion, Investing
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Individuals and institutions split on benefits of ESG investing: survey
Individuals believe the environmental, social, and ethical records of the companies they invest in are important, said Natixis, while professionals at institutions and within “the investment community” were more skeptical about the efficacy of these strategies, for example having concerns about performance measurement.
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- Investing
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- ESG, ESG investing, impact investing
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The truth is finally starting to emerge about socially responsible investing
"The ESG performance of companies appears to be something that can be used to generate value in a portfolio; traditional exclusion can be a drag," Hale said.
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- Investing
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The Price Clients Pay For SRI/ESG Investing
SRI has gained a lot of assets in recent years. In 2016, socially responsible funds managed approximately $9 trillion in assets from an overall investment pool of $40 trillion in the United States, according to data from the US SIF Foundation. While SRI and ESG investing continue to grow in popularity, economic theory suggests that if a large enough proportion of investors choose to avoid “sin” businesses, their share prices will be depressed.
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- Financial Inclusion
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