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Investing from the ‘Frontier of the Frontier’: Lessons from Ten Years as an Investment Advisor in Africa
With six of the world’s 10 fastest-growing economies, Africa is an attractive target for investors. But investing there doesn’t always come easy. Ten years ago, Andreas Zeller moved to Nairobi and co-founded Open Capital Advisors, which helps investors access African markets, and helps African businesses become investment-ready. In this interview, Zeller discusses how development and donor agencies can remove the barriers to investment throughout the continent.
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Carlyle Breaks From Pack, Plans Impact Investing Across Firm
It was a curious moment last year when Carlyle Group Inc., once famous for bold bets on defense contractors, hired one of the more prominent names in socially responsible investing.
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ESG Investing Is a ‘Complete Fraud,’ Chamath Palihapitiya Says
ESG investing — or strategies that take a company’s environmental, social and governance factors into consideration — is growing in popularity, with investors increasingly prioritizing these metrics.
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Finding the Right Asset Manager for Sustainable Investing: A Guide for Due Diligence
More than a quarter of assets under management worldwide are invested in sustainable strategies, prompting asset managers to expand their sustainability-related services. But though this growth is encouraging, analysts at the Investment Integration Project caution that it remains hard to determine which asset managers are providing the best sustainable investment services, and which approach is the most effective. They share insights from a new report that aims to answer those questions.
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Economist Events’ 4th Annual Investing for Impact Conference to Share Vision for 2020 and Beyond
Economist editors, business executives, policymakers, academics, fund managers, and institutional investors gather to explore what the next decade has in store for the future of impact investing.
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Emerging Markets Are the Next Hot Spot for Sustainable Investing
Many of the leading companies in solar energy, electric-vehicle components, or water filtration hail from China or South Korea. “We see more opportunities in emerging markets proportionally,” says Kate Starr, chief investment officer at sustainability consultant Flat World Partners.
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Viewpoint: China’s Embrace of ESG Is Threat to Real Sustainable Investing
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing standards—also called “sustainable investing” and “socially responsible investing”—have taken on greater importance in the investment community in recent years. Such investing has also reached the shores of China. With this, ESG investing reaches an inflection point. Will the standards have real bite, effecting change at companies, or will they become an irrelevant article for portfolio managers to simply “check the box” and move on?
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- Asia Pacific
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‘Green Is Good.’ Is Wall Street’s New Motto Sustainable?
As big institutions go green, it can make for strange bedfellows, like some of Goldstein’s clients who were carried into the Goldman Sachs fold. Among them, a group of Midwestern nuns known as the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, a Roman Catholic group out of St. Louis.
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