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OPEN IMPACT launches to help Canadian investors find their social and environmental impact – and bring impact investing to the mainstream
OPEN IMPACT, an online resource to help investors find financial investment products that make money – and make the world a better place – launched today at www.openimpact.ca
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Athena Publishes Research on Constructing Impact Portfolios
Athena Capital Advisors, a registered investment adviser that provides investment management, advisory, and outsourced CIO services to private clients and institutions, has released new research on a framework for constructing diversified, multi-asset class investment portfolios that seek both financial and social return.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Impact Investing Contemplates the Path Ahead: A Q&A with Big Path Capital’s Co-Founders
With Big Path Capital's Impact Capitalism Summit happening this week (right now, in fact), we caught up with Big Path co-founders Michael Whelchel and Shawn Lesser to discuss the event and impact investing's evolution. They shared their insights in this email interview.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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India social enterprise investment to lift
Social enterprises in India could attract up to $US8 billion ($A10.7 billion) in investment by 2025, eight times more than in 2015, due to the scale of social needs and available capital in the fast-growing economy, a study by consultancy firm McKinsey & Company shows.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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New Guide Helps Investors ‘Make a Clean Break’ from Fossil Fuels
Make a Clean Break: Your Guide to Fossil Fuel Free Investing — an update to previous versions released in 2014 and 2013 — provides improved insights and analysis about the potential financial advantages of eliminating fossil fuel corporations from investment portfolios and reinvesting in clean, sustainable and solutions-oriented investments that are advancing the transition toward a zero-carbon economy.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Want to use your money to change the world? The pros and cons of investing for social good
Wall Street has a longstanding reputation for checking its conscience at the door. "Greed is healthy," stock trader Ivan Boesky told a University of California at Berkeley business school class in 1986. The inspiration for Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, he would later go to prison for insider trading.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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We do not expect any returns from impact investing: Sunil Kant Munjal
Sunil Kant Munjal, the Hero Enterprises, has invested Rs 100 crore in impact investment in firm Aavishkaar's new fund, Aavishkaar Bharat Fund. The investment, made in Munjal's personal capacity, is part of the Rs 2,000-crore corpus that the social venture capital firm is targeting for its new investment vehicle.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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IntelleGrow in talks to raise $100m via debt, equity in next few months
With its eyes set on doubling its assets under management to Rs 640 crore ($99 million) this year, venture debt firm IntelleGrow is in talks with investors to raise $100 million through debt and equity.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- South Asia
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- ESG, impact investing