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Viewpoint: The Sustainability Game
Sustainable finance is here to stay. Now, CFOs must learn to navigate an often-bewildering thicket of new standards and benchmarks.
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Viewpoint: Impact Investing is Driving the Most Exciting Emerging Technologies
“The advent of very powerful emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, blockchain, and XR can make big differences when combined with smart money coming from venture capital."
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- Investing, Technology
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- ESG, impact investing
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The Rise Fund Spin-Off Marks Growth of Impact Investing
“A lot of what happens with impact investing and philanthropy is people measure afterward,” says Chris Addy, a partner at Bridgespan. The IMM is a metric “to quantitatively account for” social or environmental impact before an investment is made, he says, “with a goal being, you can actually look at hard numbers.”
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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How to Become an Impact Investor: Five Tips to Align Your Investments With Your Values
Using investments to leverage philanthropy is one of the most promising approaches to helping solve the world’s social and environmental challenges — while also meeting financial objectives. And though the impact investing landscape and its lexicon and metrics can seem daunting at times, getting started is actually quite simple, says Michael Tiedemann, CEO of Tiedemann Advisors. He shares some key takeaways for new investors to consider, based on his company’s experiences with a range of impact investors.
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Socially conscious investing has quadrupled in the past decade
In 2010, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments made up approximately $3 trillion of all professionally managed assets. As of the beginning of last year, that number had quadrupled to $12 trillion.
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- Investing
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Stricter global standards needed for impact funds to work, says OECD
Public authorities have a responsibility to set standards to counter the risk of “impact washing” - where firms seek to disguise unpopular practices or overstate the impact of their investments - said the OECD, an intergovernmental organization.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Investors Need More and Better Data on Sustainability
Measurable results are central to advance sustainable finance – the kind that rewards companies being environmentally or socially responsible.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Viewpoint: ‘Impact Investment’ Funds Advertise Great Returns and Social Impacts. They Aren’t Delivering.
Socially responsible investment is a $12 trillion industry. Does it make the world better? Probably not.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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