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Impact Investing Marketplace ImpactUs Shuts Down
“The ImpactUs Marketplace was formed with the goal of simplifying the impact investing process; providing impact investors, advisors, and institutions with solutions to accelerate the flow of capital to funds, companies, and projects that deliver community, societal, and environmental benefits. Unfortunately, we have had to make the difficult decision to cease operations,” reads a message on its web site.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, startups
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Press release: Cornerstone Capital Group Approaches $1 Billion in Assets Under Management
Cornerstone Capital Group ("Cornerstone" or "the Company"), today announced that its assets under management (AUM) now total nearly $1 billion. The Company, founded in 2013, achieved this milestone in just three years since becoming a registered investment adviser (RIA) in late 2014. Cornerstone is one of the fastest organically growing RIAs in history, and now ranks in the top 15th percentile among U.S. RIAs in terms of AUM.
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This New Blockchain Protocol Wants To Create Accountability For Social Impact
The Ixo Foundation’s “proof of impact” protocol wants to give investors knowledge that their money is working–and save organizations time and money in evaluating if their programs are working.
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- blockchain, ESG, impact investing
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Report says CalPERS investments too focused on environmental and social activism
The American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) said CalPERS board members have overemphasized what are called Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investments — and the sluggish returns on those investments are dragging down the pension fund’s bottom line.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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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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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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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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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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