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Warren Buffett’s Holding Invests $600M in Fintech Firms Focused on Emerging Markets
Multinational holding conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway – which counts outspoken crypto critic Warren Buffett as its CEO and chairman – has invested around $600 million in two fintech payment firms focused on emerging markets, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Oct. 29.
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Impact Across All Investments: The role of family offices in building the impact investing ecosystem across the continuum
Over the past several years, we have experimented with and refined our rationale for when it makes sense to deploy what type of capital. While still a work in progress, we believe that playing across the returns continuum expands our opportunities to have scalable impact.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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Press release: MicroVest Capital Management Announces the Closing of a $20mm Credit Facility with MetLife Investment Management
The credit line enables MicroVest to better manage liquidity of the fund to deploy more capital, more quickly, to the places that need it the most. Per MicroVest’s stated mission, these are often microfinance institutions in emerging and frontier markets that have few other means of accessing capital to promote financial inclusion within their markets.
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- Finance
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Viewpoint: How the US will transform its investment role in Africa with a new $60 billion agency
For at least thirty years, the US’s commercial relationship with Africa has been dominated by resources underground. Oil, gas and minerals account for about half of all US direct investment in Africa. There has been growth in almost every sector of Africa’s economy, but commercial relations with the US have been dominated by US engagement in natural resources.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Amazon is investing millions to keep packaging out of landfills
There's plenty of work to be done: The United Nations says about 300 million tons of plastic waste are produced every year, and global plastic production is expected to triple by 2050.
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- Environment, Investing
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Trifecta looks overseas for its 7.5 billion rupee second fund
Trifecta Fund II expects to achieve a first close of 2.5 billion by the end of 2019, says Trifecta Capital co-founder and managing partner Rahul Khanna.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Impact investing task-force created to draw in the private sector in South Africa
The task-force’s mission is to mobilise capital that will go into growing small businesses, dealing with unemployment and inequity, as well as investing in economic and social infrastructure such as education and healthcare facilities.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Pope likes this kind of investing
At the inaugural conference, Pope Francis called for "markets (to) serve the interests of peoples and the common good of humanity."
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- Investing
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