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Weekly Roundup: Sympathy for the Super-Rich: They don’t care much about socially responsible investing – but are the rest of us any better?
Only 20 percent of investors with a net worth of $5 - $25 million factor social responsibility into their investing decisions, according to a recent survey.
You may be rolling your eyes at the obliviousness of these multi-millionaires to the potential impact of their wealth. That was my initial reaction – until I remembered the email I received last January.- Categories
- Investing, Telecommunications
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The Value of ‘Waste’: Waste Capital Partners Sees Value in Impact Bonds, Franchising
Parag Gupta, CEO of Waste Capital Partners, has a vivid example of how much solid waste is produced each week across urban India: twice the weight of the Empire State Building. Only about half of that garbage is actually collected by municipalities for processing. The for-profit and nonprofit organization hopes to expand with impact bonds and franchises to help both farmers and trash pickers.
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- Agriculture, Education, Social Enterprise
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Wells Fargo Selects Clean Technology Startups for Innovation
$10 million program to help four winning companies develop energy-efficient smart glass, cooling, battery and smart metering technologies.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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Press Release: Global Impact Investing Network Publishes Landscape Reporton Impact Investing Industry in South Asia
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), in partnership with Dalberg Global Development Advisors, today published the full release of The Landscape for Impact Investing in South Asia, a “state of the market” analysis of the impact investing industry in the region. The most comprehensive study of impact investment activity in South Asia to date, the full report includes a chapter for each of the six countries studied—Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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- Energy
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Study: Large Majority of Ultra-High Net Worth Investors Don’t Take Social Impact Into Consideration
Younger wealthy investors have a greater interest in socially responsible investments than older investors.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Indian Mobile Wallet Leader MobiKwik Raises Close to $25 Million in Funding, Targets Another $100 Million By End of 2015
Mobile wallet company, MobiKwik, which has over 15 million users and 25,000 merchants, has announced that it raised close to $25 million in a Series B round led by Tree Line Asia. Cisco Investments, American Express and the existing investor, Sequoia Capital were part of the fund raising drive.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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African Hub Set Up to Boost Research Autonomy
African scientists look set to gain greater control over research in their own countries, if an ambitious plan for a regional hub to award grants and develop research capacity bears fruit.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, research
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MIT Alum Hopes to Spread Tech-Boom Excitement in Young, Increasingly Connected Middle East
Some of the Middle East’s most promising entrepreneurs and deep-pocketed investors gathered at the Habtoor Grand Hotel here last month for the sixth edition of the ArabNet Digital Summit, one of the largest forums for the Middle East’s burgeoning startup industry.
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- Technology
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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- impact investing