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How One Investment Fund Is Tackling America’s ‘Glaring Inequality’ Problem
Acumen, a New York-based nonprofit global venture fund, today announced it has begun investing in US startups aimed at serving underprivileged Americans.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Behind the Most Successful Microfinance IPO in India’s History: What does gender lens investing have to do with it?
The recent domestic IPO for the Indian microfinance firm Ujjivan far exceeded the domestic-only IPO record set by another microfinance firm just days earlier. As a $50 million inclusive finance company focused on women in the lowest economic strata, Ujjivan's success is a powerful statement about the value of serving low-income women with financial services, and the ability of mission-aligned investors to help them achieve impressive returns, both social and financial.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: The Business Rationale for Investing in Nature
The business rationale for investing in ecological restoration and nature-inspired biomimicrysolutions is coming into sharper focus. The business case is simply built on effectively and efficiently addressing core business issues. It is that straightforward.
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- Environment, Investing
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- impact investing
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More Than Half of Surveyed SRI Financial Professionals Are Offering Fossil Fuel-Free Portfolios to Investors
For the first time ever, more than half (51 percent) of surveyed SRI financial professionals are offering fossil fuel-free portfolios to investors, up sharply from 22 percent in 2013 and 42 percent last year, according to The SRI Conference 2016 Fossil Fuels Divestment Survey released today by First Affirmative Financial Network.
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- Investing
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Weekly Roundup: Burning the Ivory to Save It
Late last week Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta helped set 105 tons of poached elephant ivory and rhino horns ablaze. It was a drastic step to help kill a black market where the horns and tusks would have fetched $100 million. This week we were reminded of other market building forces in Africa and Ecuador.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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Report: Endowments and Foundations Warm to Impact Investing
A poll of endowments and foundations found impact investors are motivated by strong returns and mission alignment.
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- Investing
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Village Capital Raises $17.7M Fund for Social Enterprise Investment
Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm Village Capital has raised a $17.7 million fund from 29 investors including Steve and Jean Case to continue investing in social enterprise startups around the world.
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- Investing
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NEPC Survey: Endowments and Foundations Don’t Expect to Sacrifice Performance with Impact Investments
NEPC, LLC (www.nepc.com), one of the industry’s largest independent, institutional investment consulting firms, today published the results of its Q1 2016 NEPC Endowment and Foundation Poll. These results show that 86% of asset owners that currently use impact investing expect these allocations to equal or outperform the overall market.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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