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Morgan Stanley Introduces New Tool Kit to Effectively Integrate Gender Diversity Criteria Within an Investment Portfolio
Investors seeking opportunities to effectively integrate gender diversity criteria within an investment portfolio now have access to a new framework to help translate social change and greater gender equality into an actionable plan for investing.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Small-Scale Fishers Get A Big Boost With First-Of-Its Kind Impact Investment Fund
At the Our Ocean Conference, hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington, D.C. today, Rare CEO Brett Jenks and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) CEO Naoko Ishii will be jointly announcing the development of the Meloy Fund for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in Southeast Asia. The GEF, one of the largest funders of conservation worldwide, will be investing $6 million into the fund.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Our Full Slate of Videos with Impact Investing Thought Leaders from SOCAP16
The Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP) for 2016 is a wrap. But if you missed any of our live one-on-one interviews with some of the newsmakers and trendsetters, we've got you covered. Here, in reverse chronological order, is our full lineup of Facebook Live interviews from last week.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Global Family Office Report Reveals Impact Investing Has Come of Age
A remarkable 62% of family offices are now active or expect to be active in impact investing, the new Global Family Office Report by Campden Wealth in partnership with UBS reveals.
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- Investing
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In 2014 29 Orgs Committed $1.5 Billion to Impact Investing. Where’s the Money After 18 Months?
I got the call from the White House, in May 2014. “We’re going to have some major new commitments of impact investment capital at the meeting in June. Would you be interested in helping us track how the money is spent?”
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Weekly Roundup: Hippies vs. Capitalists at SOCAP, Data (and Honors) for Social Entrepreneurs and a ‘What’ for WHO
We're betting that, even if you're a social entrepreneur, the new Thomson Reuters Foundation poll about your profession contains information you didn't know. Read more about the poll in this week's Roundup, along with “the most effective social entrepreneurs on the planet”; advice for WHO; and some final thoughts from SOCAP.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Live from SOCAP, Thursday
A recap of Day 3 at SOCAP16, with more Facebook Live interviews and an inside look at some interesting conversations about terminology and trust.
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- Social Enterprise
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Live from SOCAP, Wednesday
Team NextBillion – Scott Anderson and James Militzer – is reporting from SOCAP16 in San Francisco, conducing a series of Facebook Live interviews, attending sessions and meeting some of the many "doers" in attendance at the world’s largest conference on social enterprise and impact investing.
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- Social Enterprise