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Does Impact Investing Always Have To Be Higher Risk?
Many believe that impact investments mean higher risk than other forms. Does investing with your values mean you have to sacrifice on returns?
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- Investing
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A Watershed Moment in Impact Investing: The ‘Ninth Principle’ Shifts the Focus Beyond Good Intentions
In 2014, the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce laid out recommendations for the development of the impact investing market, in what Tideline managing partner Ben Thornley calls a "watershed moment" for the sector. Now, he says, that vision is becoming a reality, thanks in part to the launch of the IFC’s Operating Principles for Impact Management. He explores the importance of these principles – and why the ninth principle "is the real game-changer."
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Frontier Economies Need For Capital May Mean Returns, Impact for Investors
The New York-based nonprofit analyzed 40 investments in emerging and frontier markets. “Frontier finance” investments are aimed at helping help low- and lower-middle income groups in the countries, and according to GIIN, the landscape is diverse. The investments came from for-profit and nonprofit investors on five continents, and from a mix of sources.
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Mainstreaming Impact Finance: Major Momentum and Gaps in the Transformation of the Financial Industry
There are exciting signs of a new level of mainstream corporate interest in sustainable business and finance. But despite the significant progress made in the sector since the 1970s, challenges remain – from lack of transparency in impact measurement, to lack of clarity about what impact even means. AlphaMundi founder Tim Radjy explores why we need to transform the rules of business and shift our systems to sustainable alternatives – and how impact finance can help make that happen.
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Press Release: TEAMFund Closes $30MM Impact Fund
TEAMFund invests in commercial-stage companies addressing non-communicable diseases in low-resource settings, with an initial geographic focus in India and Sub- Saharan Africa.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Aavishkaar Group Scoops up $37 Million in Fresh Financing From FMO
Aavishkaar Group, one of the world’s largest impact investors, has raised $37 million in fresh financing from Dutch development finance institution FMO.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Climate Capitalists Have Serious Money in Climate-Friendly Investments
All want to do good by the planet. Most expect to do well for themselves.
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- Energy, Environment
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Press Release: In Impact Investing First, LeapFrog Announces Audit on Impact Principles, Achieving Top Rating
In the independent audit by Tideline, a leading US impact advisory consultancy, LeapFrog was assessed as an “Exemplification of industry best practice,” with its Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) system achieving “an advanced level of alignment across the board for all nine of the Principles.”
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