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Impact Across All Investments: The role of family offices in building the impact investing ecosystem across the continuum
Over the past several years, we have experimented with and refined our rationale for when it makes sense to deploy what type of capital. While still a work in progress, we believe that playing across the returns continuum expands our opportunities to have scalable impact.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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The Pope likes this kind of investing
At the inaugural conference, Pope Francis called for "markets (to) serve the interests of peoples and the common good of humanity."
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Ensuring That The Trillions Have Impact: New Global Minimum Standards For Credible Impact Investing
The Global Impact Investing Network’s most recent estimate for the minimum size of the impact investing market doubled to $228 billion in assets under management (AUM), up from $114 billion a year earlier. Investors ranging from public pensions to private equity firms are increasingly including impact investments as part of their asset mix.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: CalPERS election earthquake should shake up responsible investment narrative
This argument is that the CalPERS Board is a captive of the staff, which itself is in turn a captive of favored investment consultants and asset managers. Given large union support for Mathur, the Naked Capitalism headline partially read, “Repudiation of Captured Board and Labor Leaders.”
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- Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing, public policy
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From Talk to Action: The Pressing Need for a Guiding Framework in Impact Investing
As the impact sector grows, a clear need has emerged for a common set of principles that help define what impact investing is – and what it isn’t – as well as how social impact should be measured. At the recent Alpbach Forum, a forum of 40 thought leaders explored these questions, charting a path forward for investors, particularly in emerging markets. Julians Amboko and Julio De Souza of StratLink Africa break down the top takeaways from the forum.
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- Investing
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Press release: MetLife Named to the 2018 Dow Jones Sustainability Index
“MetLife is committed to delivering value for all of its stakeholders,” said Mike Zarcone, MetLife executive vice president and head of Corporate Affairs. “It is the nature of our business to create value for the world at large, and we are proud to be recognized by DJSI for the continued progress we are making to be a more sustainable company.”
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Press release: FINCA International launches FINCA Ventures, an impact investing initiative
FINCA Ventures reflects FINCA International’s commitment to advancing market-led innovations supporting the world’s poor. By linking access to finance with access to basic services, FINCA Ventures can help increase the quality of life and productivity of FINCA’s global customer base, and create opportunities to extend financial inclusion by developing new financial products and services for unbanked and under-banked families.
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- Press release
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Report: ‘Millennial generation’ most interested in investing to make a positive global impact
Two out of five investors (43 per cent) aged under 40 report having made an impact investment during their lifetime, the study says.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, research, youth
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