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Point: ESG — or Socially Responsible — Funds May Soothe Your Conscience but Could Weaken Your Portfolio
I have always been opposed to socially responsible investing — that is, investing with the aim of making a political statement — in the public pension environment.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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ResponsAbility Investments Backs Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets With $175M
The sum was raised through the issuance of U.S. Dollar dominated-debt securities maturing in 3 years to institutional investors.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Moving From A***Hole Investing to Investing
Daniel Madhavan, the CEO of Impact Investment Group, shares three things he doesn’t like about setting an allocation for impact investment and why it’s useless to put “impact” into a single unified bucket of delicious goodness.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Impact Investment Favours Expats Over African Entrepreneurs. Here’s How to Fix That
Village Capital found that 90% of the capital invested in East Africa in 2015-2016 went to a very small group of expatriate-founded businesses.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, startups
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Viewpoint: Opportunity Zones Can Drive Development Of US Renewable Energy
Opportunity Zones give both individuals and corporations the chance to re-invest existing capital gains into Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds (“QOFs”) in order to receive tax breaks for helping fund investment in impoverished areas.
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- North America
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Titans Linebacker Derrick Morgan Retires From NFL And Launches $200 Million Opportunity Zone Fund
Morgan is taking his OZ investing a step further to ensure it has both a financial profit and positive social impact, or a double bottom line, as it’s known.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: How Donor-Advised Funds Can Amp Up Their Giving Power
When you think of donor advised-funds or sustainable investing, you probably don’t think of a 1,600% gain in a single investment. But that’s exactly what happened for investors in ImpactAssets’ donor-advised fund.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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Chronic, Not Acute: The Refugee Crisis Needs Long-Term Solutions – And Social Enterprise Can Help
It’s time to stop addressing the global refugee crisis with short-term emergency measures, and to start seeking long-term solutions, says Thane Kreiner at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. One of those solutions is entrepreneurship, and Kreiner shares five lessons from the Center's Social Entrepreneurship at the Margins (SEM) accelerator program for businesses serving or led by refugees and other displaced people. The Center is selecting its second SEM accelerator cohort, and applications are open worldwide until August 23, 2019.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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