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Summer of Impact Investing: ImpactAlpha Flags 10 Recent Developments Shaping the Sector
In July, NextBillion launched a collaboration with ImpactAlpha to highlight coverage of the top stories, leaders and trends in impact investing. This article, which appeared on July 12, proved to be the most popular post that month, and is entered in this year's Most Influential Post of 2016 contest. We're publishing a new entrant in the contest every day through Jan. 2; be sure to vote for your favorite.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Could Fiduciary Standards Be Lowered to Encourage ESG?
Groom Law says the strong push in international bodies such as the European Commission and OECD to encourage pensions to take into account environmental, social, ethical and governance (ESG) factors could spill over to the United States.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Join ‘The Economist’ in a Discussion About the Future of Impact Investing
On Feb. 15, 2017, in New York, "The Economist" is bringing together leading financiers, institutional investors, entrepreneurs and business executives, policymakers and regulators, academics, and philanthropists, to analyze the main opportunities and obstacles to the mainstreaming of purpose-driven finance. There's still time to buy discounted tickets, and NextBillion readers get an extra 15 percent off.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Kresge Investing $14 Million to Community Finance Institutions Serving Low-Income People
The Kresge Foundation announced today $14 million in investments to six Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) and Development Finance Agencies (DFAs) working to expand opportunity for low-income people in America’s cities through an initiative called Kresge Community Finance (KCF).
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing, lending
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10 Lessons From Impact Investing in India
10 years, US$ 50 million, over 50 investments. Those numbers don't tell the whole story of Michael & Susan Dell Foundation's journey in India. Since the foundation began its work in India in 2006, with the goal of eradicating urban poverty through its focus on education and family economic stability, it has focused on scalable solutions supported by a combination of grants and impact investments. Our impact investing evolution is reflected in both the organisations and projects that have scaled up as well as our learnings along the way.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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4 Growth Trends in Impact Investing
As impact investing continues to show strong growth as a sector, the Sustainable Development Goals are fast emerging as a reference for an ever-diversifying range of actors seeking guidelines on how to invest for impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing, SDGs
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CalPERS Opts to Keep Ban on Tobacco Stocks
CalPERS said no again to tobacco Monday. Amid a passionate debate on the wisdom and morality of investing in tobacco, the big California pension fund rejected a recommendation by its staff to end its 16-year-old ban on the practice. CalPERS’ investment committee, in a 9-3 vote, concluded that the tobacco industry is heading toward long-term decline and presents too much of a risk
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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- impact investing
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As Uganda’s education system struggles, for-profit schools become flashpoint
In Prossy Nsereko’s cramped office, the writing is literally on the wall. One side is covered with peppy, hand-written slogans: "Winners never quit." "We are what we believe we are." On the other is a list of school fees.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa