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Don’t Call It A Robo: Motif Launches Custom Automated Impact Investing
Advisors late to the impact investing game may have missed their chance -- there’s now a digital platform for that. Silicon Valley-based Motif Investing is introducing Motif Impact, a values-oriented digital investing solution.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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UBS Raises $110 Million Fund to Invest in Woman-Led Firms
UBS Group AG’s American wealth management unit has helped raise $110 million for a U.S. venture capital fund that will invest in companies in the health, education and environmental areas that are led by or co-managed by women.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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First FinTech Fund for Inclusion of the Underserved Raises $141 Million
The first FinTech fund created to help the underserved has closed, reaching millions in capital contributions, which will go toward people and companies who need assistance in the financial sector.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Landmark $3 Billion Socially Responsible Synthetic Securitization
Crédit Agricole CIB is pleased to announce the completion of Premium Green 2017-2, a $3 billion synthetic risk transfer related to the bank's portfolio of project finance and object finance loans.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- impact investing
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IFMR Investment to raise Rs 550 crore for financial inclusion space
Kolkata: IFMR Investment Managers Pvt Ltd is aiming to raise a minimum Rs 550 crore from long term investors keen to exposure to the country’s growing inclusive finance space. The Chennai-based company, wholly owned by IFMR Capital, has unveiled two debt funds and expects domestic institutional investors such as insurance companies, banks and non-banking finance companies to invest in them. About 10% of the issue is kept for private wealth funds.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Impact investing in the age of President Trump
If implemented, the president's policies could have a profound effect on issues that resonate with a growing number of investors: the environment, social issues and corporate governance.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Social Business Roundup: Biblical Impact Investing, Salt from Solar in Kenya and Invoices of Inclusion
In this week's social business roundup: “Biblically responsible investing” is offering another path to the predominately secular space of SRI, one of Kenya's largest solar projects could be a model for rural power and how one company's approach to the tedious process of invoicing customers could lead to more financial inclusion in the Philippines.
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- Energy, Health Care, Investing
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How Social Entrepreneurs Begin To Measure Impact
There are two keys to becoming a good social entrepreneur. Intentionality, that is intending to have a positive social impact rather than merely delivering one incidentally, is how you become a social entrepreneur. Accountability, measuring the impact, is how you become an effective one.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing