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Why Financial Advisors Are Still Reluctant to Jump on ESG Bandwagon
Asset managers and major brokerages think there’s big money to be made shilling these funds to advisors, with the likes of BlackRock, Bank of America and UBS highlighting the growing acceptance and mainstream popularity of SRI and “impact investing” strategies.
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- Investing
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Perspective: Private equity investors can help Africa to feed itself
The private sector has a greater role to play in socioeconomic growth in Africa than ever before.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Dangote to invest $450m on agriculture in Niger
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the President, Dangote Group on Monday disclosed that the company would invest $450million in agriculture development in Niger State over the next three years.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Meloy Fund I Launches With US$10M First Close
Investors include a diverse range of family offices, investment managers, and foundations. Lukas Walton will have a significant interest in the Meloy Fund via the Lukas Walton Fund of the Walton Family Foundation.
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- Investing
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Behind the Numbers: What impact is Trump having on ESG?
With the new administration trying to bring back coal, pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement, and favoring broad deregulation of business, has sustainable investing now become a risky proposition?
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- Investing
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More Evidence of Solid Performance From Sustainable Funds
Investors in funds that incorporate environmental, social, and governance factors into their process appear not to suffer a performance penalty.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Why ESG Investing Needs More Precision and Clarity
It’s hard to believe that roughly 26% of professionally managed money worldwide is pegged to environmental, social and government strategies (ESG). At the surface, this seems like an unrealistically high number, given that asset managers have offered scant details about how they define their ESG criteria. So, where does the truth lie? The short answer is we don’t know, and the reality is it probably doesn’t matter.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, ESG investing, ETF, impact investing
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Piggy looks to build a simple app for first-time investors in India
The principle is still pretty straightforward: build an app to help users easily manage a diverse portfolio of investments that are attractive to the average human and first-time investor.
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- Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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