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More Evidence of Solid Performance From Sustainable Funds
Investors in funds that incorporate environmental, social, and governance factors into their process appear not to suffer a performance penalty.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Why ESG Investing Needs More Precision and Clarity
It’s hard to believe that roughly 26% of professionally managed money worldwide is pegged to environmental, social and government strategies (ESG). At the surface, this seems like an unrealistically high number, given that asset managers have offered scant details about how they define their ESG criteria. So, where does the truth lie? The short answer is we don’t know, and the reality is it probably doesn’t matter.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Piggy looks to build a simple app for first-time investors in India
The principle is still pretty straightforward: build an app to help users easily manage a diverse portfolio of investments that are attractive to the average human and first-time investor.
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- Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Rockefeller Foundation, Nonprofit ETF Plan to Expand ESG Strategies
With a secured $300,000 grant from one of the nation’s foremost philanthropies, Impact Shares will be launching the first of its innovative social issue-related ETFs in late 2017, according to a note.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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OPINION: Socially responsible investing an expensive taste
Other benefits like peace and a livable planet notwithstanding, the financial cost of socially responsible investing appears to be high.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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World’s first social impact bond achieved goals and repaid investors
But experts warn that the success of the One Service in Peterborough does not necessarily mean the SIB model will work elsewhere.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Where Will JPMorgan Chase Put Its 200 Billion Green Dollars?
JP Morgan Chase aims to funnel a staggering $200 billion into sustainability efforts by 2025, primarily by supporting wind and solar projects around the world; but a sustainable economy needs more than just renewable energy. It needs healthy forests, farms, and fields; and the bank has a history of supporting the restoration economy that supports these.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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Viewpoint: Why Socially Responsible Investing Is Not for Me
About one-fifth of all assets under management in the U.S. now include some ESG component, according to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, and some 500 mutual and exchange-traded funds now practice some form of socially conscious investing.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing