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Investing For Impact: Recasting A Traditional Portfolio For Purpose & Profit
The prospect is as exhilarating as it is daunting: As much as $30 trillion is expected to pass from baby boomers to their heirs in North America over the next three or four decades, according to a report from Accenture.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG
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Tej Kohli takes the wraps off his $25Mn tech-focused ‘Kohli Impact Investment Initiative’
Venture capitalist Tej Kohli, announced today about his newly formed Kohli Impact Investment Initiative, commencing with a hefty sum of $25 million. The Initiative is powered by Kohli’s family office, Kohli Ventures particularly targeted at attracting innovative and disruptive technologies.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, venture capital
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Sustainable Investing: Not Just About Returns
In 2016, we stated that environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing was at an inflection point and would move centre stage for many investors.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Exclusive: Philip Morris jolted by Indian proposal to ban foreign tobacco investment
Philip Morris International is fighting to keep a toehold in India's $11 billion tobacco market, as the government considers further tightening foreign investment rules in the sector, according to documents seen by Reuters.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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- ESG
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Social Business Roundup: Building Our Immunity to Anti-Vaxxers, Solar Loans With a Side of Health, and SRI Goes Robo
There’s a crisis of trust in the world, some of it well earned – and some, like skepticism about vaccines, completely unwarranted. We cover an alarming uptick in the anti-vax movement's profile, an effort to pair solar loans with health care in Ghana, and the emergence of "robo-SRI" in this news roundup.
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- Energy, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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- ESG, impact investing, solar, vaccines
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“Impact investing” inches from niche to mainstream
WHEN investors gathered in Amsterdam in late 2016 for perhaps the largest annual conference on “impact investing”, the mood was upbeat. The concept of investing in assets that offer measurable social or environmental benefits as well as financial returns has come a long way from its modest roots in the early 2000s.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Retirement Plan Sponsors Remain Cautious on Impact Investing and ESG
2016 was an effective year for providers and recordkeepers searching to incorporate socially and environmentally conscious investment themes; yet fear of fiduciary risk and industry jargon are slowing progress among defined contribution (DC) plans.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Could Fiduciary Standards Be Lowered to Encourage ESG?
Groom Law says the strong push in international bodies such as the European Commission and OECD to encourage pensions to take into account environmental, social, ethical and governance (ESG) factors could spill over to the United States.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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