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A Big Tax Break for Socially Responsible Investing
Opportunity zones, pushed last year with bipartisan support, were created for a mix of urban, suburban and rural areas. They hark back to plans from the 1980s meant to steer capital into blighted neighborhoods.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Press release: OPIC and Liberty Mutual Insurance Launch $1 Billion Agreement to Catalyze Private Sector Investment in the Developing World
This is OPIC’s first agreement with a U.S. owned insurance company to share credit risk across a global portfolio of new OPIC-originated loans to commercial banks and other non-bank financial institutions.
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- North America
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China’s CFPA Microfinance raises $140m in Series C led by The Rise Fund
The latest funding round adds The Rise Fund to CFPA’s list of big-ticket investors, which now include Ant Financial, China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, IFC, Sequoia Capital China, High Impact Capital Advisors, and Renda Puhui.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why I don’t believe in the SDGs (and how impact investing is changing my mind)
The current funding levels for the SDGs don’t come close to what’s needed - impact investing may be the key to closing the gap.
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- Investing
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Gender and Ethnic Diversity Make Impact Investing Profitable
More diverse companies perform better, according to findings by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Why Faith-based Organizations are Shifting to Impact Investing
A 2010 global study of faith institutions showed that 77% of 103 respondents practice impact investing.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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A Recipe for Change: Can Blended Finance Help Trigger an ‘Impact Revolution’?
There’s a lot of uncertainty about how to mobilize the massive amounts of private capital necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. One promising possibility, says Christina Moehrle at Roots of Impact, is to explore innovative, “fusion food”-style approaches like blended finance – a growing market with over $100 billion mobilized to date. She explores blended finance’s potential to empower small businesses to reach impact at scale – along with the challenges of aligning both public and private stakeholders around impact.
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- Investing
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Aavishkaar plans to raise $300 million for South Asia fund
Aavishkaar Group’s eighth fund, which is aiming for a first close by end-2019, will consciously avoid India and China and focus on smaller markets of Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar and Laos, among others.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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