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Tapping Opportunity Zones, Social Impact Investor SoLa Raises Its Biggest Fund
Muoto created SoLa Impact Fund in 2012, aimed at investing in properties in economically distressed areas of South Los Angeles. So he was perfectly positioned to leverage Opportunity Zone legislation. To that end, he recently raised his third and largest fund.
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- Investing
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- North America
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This Hedge Fund Superstar Thinks Climate Change Will Impact All Your Investments—And Soon
“Climate change is something we have to include in every single analysis, every investment,” he says
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- Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: Scaling Impact Investing Using Blockchain Technology
Most opportunities empower socio-environmental causes in developing or underdeveloped nations where typically there are no standards and norms to regulate this sector. This creates transparency challenges for investors who lack visibility into how their patient capital is being used (or potentially misused).
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Press Release: LISC Names Annie Donovan as New COO
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) has named Annie Donovan, former director of the federal Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) and a national thought leader on community investing, as its new chief operating officer.
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Viewpoint: Opportunity Zones Should Deliver More Than Profit and Tax Breaks
Across the country, thousands of communities in or near an opportunity zone could be embarking upon one of the most profound experimental economic programs in generations. Structured correctly, opportunity zone investments can direct billions dollars in private investment toward the kind of new development, skills training and infrastructure upgrades these communities so badly need.
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Press Release: Tides Canada Launches First Customizable Donor Advised Fund to Be 100 Percent Invested for Impact
Tides Canada launches first customizable Donor Advised Fund to be 100 percent invested for impact Tides Canada’s new initiative with the Genus-SVX Impact Investment Counsel advances Impact Investing for Canadians
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- Investing
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- North America
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Five Things We’ve Learned Creating Data Standards for Inclusive Fintech
It’s no secret that capital is flowing into fintech. In 2018, global fintech investments exceeded USD $100 billion. Yet this investment is highly concentrated among a relatively small group of companies. Blaine Stephens and Chrissy Martin Meier of MIX share five insights from a new research initiative based on 40 interviews with fintechs, investors and ecosystem actors, designed to drive capital to inclusive fintechs in hopes of reaching 1.7 billion unbanked people around the world.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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Future Returns: Investing With a Gender Lens
Gender lens investing strategies have boomed in recent years, fueled by the #MeToo movement, increased awareness about how women often are treated, and a recognition that companies benefit when diversity and inclusion is fostered.
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- Investing
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