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India’s Social Entrepreneurs Promised “Maximum” Support From Minister
The Indian government will put its ‘heart and soul’ into supporting social entrepreneurship – the minister for science, technology and earth sciences has pledged.
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- South Asia
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Now It’s Easier Than Ever to Invest in Stocks for Social Good
With a new online brokerage aimed at millennials, you can pick a theme—like "Improve Education" or "No Glass Ceiling"—and invest. The catch is you'll still be supporting big, conventional conglomerates.
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$1.4 Billion Fund Targets Eco-Social Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA) has announced the launch of five dedicated investment funds that will target high growth industries while promoting economic and social development in Angola and the Sub-Saharan region.
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Shhh! Don’t Tell Institutional Investors, but Sustainability Drives Returns in Real Assets
ImpactAlpha.com - Dave Chen and his team at Equilibrium Capital in Portland, Ore., don't generally pitch pension funds and other institutional investors on the firm's thesis that environmentally and socially beneficial practices can drive operational efficiencies, reduced risk and above-market, or 'alpha,' returns.
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- Environment, Investing
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Press Release: TriLinc Global Impact Fund Makes Impact Investments in Africa and Latin America
TriLinc Global Impact Fund announced today that it has approved a total of $9.2 million in trade finance facilities to companies in South Africa, Kenya, and Argentina, bringing total financing commitments as of March 31, 2015 to $76.7 million for business expansion and socioeconomic development through its holdings in Africa and Latin America.
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Bain Capital Hires Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to Lead Its Social Impact Fund
Bain Capital, the $75 billion private equity firm founded by 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, hired former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to lead a social impact fund.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Assessing Impact Investing and Borrowing in Old Age
Socially responsible investing in its basic form doesn’t go far enough for some people. After all, countless mutual funds already avoid shares of companies that produce addictive or dangerous products — like tobacco, alcohol or firearms.
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Where Is the Rockefeller Family Reinvesting Its Former Oil Holdings?
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund—the $866 million-asset foundation started in 1940 by John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s five sons—announced in September that the family would divest itself of all their coal, tar-sands, and fossil-fuel investments held in the fund’s endowment. The eight Rockefeller family trustees on the board decided the fund needed “to better align its endowed assets with its mission” of combating climate change.
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- Energy, Environment