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This Startup Lets You Use Your Extra Cash To Invest In Community Development
CNote pools individual deposits–as small as $20–and funnels them into Community Development Financial Institutions, which support low-income communities and small businesses.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Study: Investors Choose Sustainability for Better Returns
The 2017 Schroders Global Investor Study of 22,100 people who invest across 30 countries found the majority of them view sustainable investing as a way to generate profits and not just potential positive impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Seven Lessons From A Decade Of Impact Investing
Impact investors have funneled more than $100 billion into projects designed to make money by doing good, and $8 billion of that flowed into projects that improve the way we manage land. AlphaSource Advisors has been in the impact space for over a decade, and they’ve learned a few things along the way.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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ESG Demand Grows, But May Not Be Compatible With Index Investing
Two-thirds (68%) of investors feel financially secure, emboldened enough by strong stock market gains to take additional investment risks, but the market’s record highs and historic calm over the past year aren’t enough to soothe their fear of losses, according to a new survey by Natixis Global Asset Management.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Aavishkaar, the Modern Day Impact Investor
In October 2001, Aavishkaar (Hindi for ‘invention’) was launched with the money Rai had raised. It’s now part of the parent company, Aavishkaar-Intellecap Group. Intellecap was founded in 2002. The company identifies investable businesses from underprivileged areas and provides the necessary business training.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Jamie Dimon: The Biggest Lesson We Learned From Investing in Detroit
The private sector plays an essential role in society, and it is a role we should embrace—not just because it’s the right thing to do. It’s good for our shareholders and for our bottom line, too. Business can do well by doing good.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Viewpoint: Generational Musings on Impact Investing: Are They Worth the Paper?
Millennials fall between 20 and 37 years of age; this is still a young generation and, as such, an idealistic group. Research shows that as families grow and people get older, their investing strategies change. Saving the whales might sound good to a twenty-year-old, but the financial burden of children and aging parents may influence a forty-year-old to focus on financial return.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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New Forests: Path clears for ethical investors
Timberland investor New Forests is encouraging Singapore to become Asia’s hub for impact investing, while solving the region’s annual pollution problem.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, forests, impact investing