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Goldman Sachs Is Starting a Socially Responsible ETF
With socially responsible investing -- also known as ESG for its focus on a company’s environmental, social or governance policies -- surging to more than $23 trillion globally, ETF issuers are looking to get a piece of the action.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Does Sustainable Investing Help or Hurt Returns?
But despite that strong rationale, which has attracted trillions in assets under management globally to sustainable investments, one of the main concerns many interested investors still have about sustainable investing is “Will it hurt my returns?”
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- ESG, impact investing
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India is a fertile environment for impact investing: Bill McGlashan
As a $2 billion (around ₹13,000 crore) impact investment fund, managed by the US-based private equity firm TPG Growth, The Rise Fund is one of the most ambitious of its kind.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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- ESG, impact investing
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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?
The investment industry is changing. Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.
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- ESG, impact investing
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Do-Good Investors: Watch Out For What These Funds Hold
If you listen to the marketing hype, assets devoted to ESG—industry jargon for investments sensitive to environmental, social and governance issues—account for some $8.7 trillion, double the amount just five years ago. That's great news for the planet, right? Not so fast. Much of the growth is a matter of semantics. What were once run-of-the-mill value or growth funds are being reclassified as sustainable or ESG-friendly.
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Impact Investing Can Be Profitable, New Report Says
Throughout the industry’s development, however, some investors have questioned the ability of impact investments to generate financial returns similar to traditional investments, and lack of data has left this question unanswerable.
Now a new report from the Global Impact Investing Network looks to recent research that it says has shed valuable light on what are appropriate and achievable financial performance expectations.- Categories
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- ESG, impact investing
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Advisors Failing To Talk ESG With Clients
“There has been some progress among advisors with bringing up the subject,” says Anthony Eames, vice president and director of responsible investment strategy for Calvert, a firm that focuses on responsible investing. “But advisors need to be educated to the fact that their clients are interested in these issues.”
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Venezuela’s likely default could teach you a lesson: Don’t invest in dictatorships
If the default occurs, they’ll only be getting what they deserve. And as an added bonus, the spectacle of a Venezuelan default — the first by a major country since Argentina’s in 2001 — would help convince investors across the world that it’s not good business to invest in state-run companies of repressive regimes.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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- ESG, impact investing, public policy
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