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Courage, Optimism, Defiance: Impact Investment Exchange Founder Durreen Shahnaz Discusses her Journey of Empowerment
Growing up in Bangladesh, Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) Founder Durreen Shahnaz tended to rebel against tradition, preferring boys’ clothes to saris, and exploring the streets on her bike rather than staying indoors. Yet she never rebelled against her family's core focus on charity. Her long and distinguished career in social business and investing has been defined both by her maverick spirit and by her humanitarian values. NextBillion caught up with Shahnaz to discuss her inspiring story and IIX's ongoing work, as the company celebrates its tenth anniversary.
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Donor-Advised Funds Grow in Popularity as Tools for Impact Investing
Donor-advised funds, a fast-growing way to make charitable contributions, may be the propellant needed to fire up impact investing, a practice that is growing but is viewed by some as having unfulfilled promise.
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World’s First Afro-Asia FinTech Festival to Focus on Sustainable Finance
The Central Bank of Kenya and the Monetary Authority of Singapore yesterday announced the inaugural Afro-Asia FinTech Festival. Dubbed “FinTech in the Savannah”, the theme of the Festival is “Sustainable Finance: Inclusive and Green”.
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More Advisors Bringing Up ESG Investing With Clients
Financial advisors are being put under pressure to learn more about responsible investing, and many are stepping up to the challenge, according to Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA.
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Good for Investors, Good for Business: Helping Financial Advisors Embrace Sustainable Investing
The chorus of investors demanding sustainable investing has hit a fever pitch – not just among millennials or women, but among all ages and genders. This has not gone unnoticed by financial advisors, but meeting client demand for these investments can be challenging. The Investment Integration Project recently published a guide to help advisors get past their anxieties and harness the business-building potential of sustainable investing. William Burckart and Jessica Ziegler discuss the key takeaways.
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Viewpoint: Has Impact Investing Reached a Fork in the Road?
Impact investing still operates at the margins of our financial system. The vast majority of the system continues as it has always done: channeling capital to projects that are oblivious to or actively harm environmental and social progress, that fuel inequities and cavalier business behavior. That system isn't working.
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Goldman Sachs Earth Day Impact Report Shows Change Isn’t Easy
While Goldman has increased investment in green operations to $1.2 billion in 2018 from $701 million in 2017, it had more trouble gaining energy efficiency and managing carbon emissions.
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- Environment, Investing
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Wheb and Impax Lead the Way as ‘Impact Washing’ Confuses Investors
As product launches in the space gather pace, the Investment Association is currently consulting on environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure, while the World Bank recently launched operating principles for impact investors and Eurosif has long offered a transparency code for investors reaching certain disclosure standards.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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