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A Landmark Impact Investment: Could This Innovative Experiment with Islamic Finance Provide a Model for Both Sectors?
Impact investing and Islamic finance are two segments of the socially responsible finance spectrum that rarely intersect – despite having much in common. But according to Umar Moghul, a transactional lawyer with experience in Islamic law, a recent impact investment by Mission Driven Finance in Somali Family Service of San Diego offers an example of how the two sides can come together to boost their mutual impact.
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Investors See ‘Material Risk’ in Ignoring ESG
Asset owners expect environmental factors will be more material than traditional financial criteria in the next five years, according to a UBS survey.
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Viewpoint: Do-Good Capitalism Has to Act as If the World Depends on It
Capitalism, they say, can solve some of these problems faster by harnessing the power of the markets. Well-intentioned as these investors may be, their efforts have yet to make a significant dent in any major problems.
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Harvard Course Teaches Rich Millennials How to Do Good (and Make Money)
The graduates represent a quiet insurgency among the world’s wealthy millennials. As their peers march to protest climate change and inequality, these privileged few are arming themselves with the skills and arguments they need to convince their families -- often against bankers’ advice -- to make more “impact investments” that are designed to benefit society as well as turn a profit.
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Millennials Are Changing the Future of Investment and Here’s How
Despite their reputation for laziness, most of them work hard and feel strongly about wanting their work to be meaningful and bring huge returns.
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Temasek’s Philanthropy Arm Sets up Fund for Impact Investing in Asia
The fund will focus on themes such as financial and digital inclusion, better health and education, climate and water solutions, sustainable food and agriculture, and smart and liveable cities.
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You Can Now Invest in a ‘Racial Justice’ Index Fund
The new “Racial Justice” criteria joins more than a dozen other causes promoted by OpenInvest’s indexing technology—which allows investors to prioritize values including gender equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, and ethical supply chains and also combat issues like fossil fuels, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions, among others.
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Press Release: First-Of-Its-Kind U.S. Government Blended-Finance Fund to Empower Women in Developing Markets
The WAM fund is a blended-finance vehicle designed to attract private capital in developing markets by offering protection to commercial investors by lowering the risk of loss. This blended-finance approach seeks to catalyze capital to create a $100 million fund to invest specifically in women’s financial inclusion.
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