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New Platform Aims To Attract Reluctant Impact Investors
For impact investing to grow, a critical mass of mainstream funders needs to embrace it. Helping to make that happen is the goal of ClearlySo ATLAS, a recently announced platform with which private equity investors can assess the impact of their portfolio companies. The underlying framework is geared to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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A huge public pension fund faces an agonizing decision: Should it reinvest in tobacco?
Sixteen years ago, CalPERS, the nation’s largest public pension fund, vaulted to the forefront of the social investing movement by voting to dump its $671 million in tobacco stocks.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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Next Up for Impact Investing: ‘Solve for Market Demand, Not Investor Preferences’
Pioneers in the impact investing field have always wanted to take the movement mainstream. Well, they're getting there. Attendees at the Global Impact Investing Network's Investor Forum 2016 in Amsterdam, when compared to the 2013 forum in London, included more fund managers, more wealthy family advisors and large foundations, more big money people. Now comes education for the bigger players eager to get involved.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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B Lab Honors World’s Leading Impact Investors Using New GIIRS System
B Lab, in partnership with B the Change Media, announced today the honorees of the 2016 Best for the World Funds, celebrating 50 impact investment funds that have created exceptional social and environmental impact, including in areas of microfinance and technology.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Toniic T100: Launch Report Offers New Insights From The Frontier Of Impact Investing
Toniic Institute, the global action community for impact investors, today released T100: Launch "Insights from the Frontier of Impact Investing," in a presentation at the GIIN Investor Forum 2016 in Amsterdam. It is the first report in a longitudinal study of impact investing portfolios of Toniic members, starting with 51 portfolios.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- data, impact investing
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Impact Investing Buzz: GIIN and Toniic Mix with Growth Reports
The knock on impact investing – both within and outside of the industry – is the lack of long-term data and platforms to observe deals in a more transparent way. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Toniic, arguably the industry’s most influential trade groups, both released studies designed to turn around some of those perceptions. The reports were unveiled at the GIIN Investor Forum 2016 on Wednesday in Amsterdam.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing, research
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GIIN Impact Investing Trends Analysis Report Finds Sustained Growth in Assets, and High Level of Satisfaction with Financial Returns Among Investors
A study released by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) at the opening today of its two-day Investor Forum 2016 in Amsterdam found that impact investors reported substantial growth over the last three years.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- impact investing, research
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Social Funds Tie Pay to Impact
Plenty of investment professionals have their compensation tied to hitting specific financial targets. But does that metric make sense for increasingly popular socially responsible funds?
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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