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Press release: ImpactAssets Releases Seventh Annual IA 50 Impact Investment Fund Showcase
ImpactAssets has released its 2017-18 ImpactAssets 50 (IA 50), a free, online database for investors and financial advisors that features a diversified listing of 50 private capital fund managers that deliver social and environmental impact as well as financial returns. IA 50 users can sort and filter across a range of asset classes (debt, private equity and real estate), geographies, size of funds, themes and more.
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Why China has yet to catch the wave of global responsible investing
A lack of understanding about the importance of ESG and its potential benefits is hampering its adoption among Chinese firms, according to the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment organisation.
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- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, impact investing, SDGs
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‘Eye-opening’ Impact Assessment: How Benchmarks Can Boost Social and Business Outcomes
For the last ten years, Acumen has been investing in off-grid energy companies in the developing world. In its new Energy Impact Report, the impact investing nonprofit talked directly to thousands of customers about their experiences - good and bad - with these companies’ energy products. Acumen's Kat Harrison discusses the survey's revealing results.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Why Omidyar Network Invested in the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment
Is impact investing reaching a tipping point? Multiple signs point to growing momentum.
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Viewpoint: The thing about impact investments
The thing about impact investments is the best of them look like regular investments.
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More Governments Are Turning To Impact Bonds–But Do They Deliver?
The model of the social impact bond, now eight years old, is spreading. Figures recently released by Social Finance, a nonprofit that arranges SIBs, says there are now 108 around the world.
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- Impact Assessment
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Japan Urged to Tap Dormant Bank Accounts to Promote ‘Impact Investment’
The concept of impact investment has gathered momentum globally, Cohen said, as cash-strapped governments look for money from the private sector to tackle issues such as child welfare and caring for the elderly in an ageing society.
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Viewpoint: Will Unilever’s Ethical Business Stance be a Catalyst for Change?
Last week saw Unilever’s marketing chief Keith Weed come forward to say that the agency will be severing ties with those it deems unethical.
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- impact investing
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