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ANDE’s State of the SGB Sector: The annual report shifts from making the case for SGBs to digging deeper on progress, challenges
Since 2009, the sector has raised $3 billion in committed capital. And last year, 22 SGB-inclined investment vehicles were launched, with the median target fund size reaching $66.5 million, up 33 percent from 2012.
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Inheritance-Rich Millennials Are Primed to Become Impact Investing’s Most Ardent Supporters
Millennials stand to inherit $30 trillion (U.S.) in assets over the next three decades. Understandably, investors, and the rest of the world, have a major interest in how these young people will choose to invest their inheritances.
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India’s microfinance sector set to rebound, says rating agency
Crisil says, loan portfolios of microfinance companies to grow at a compounded annual rate of 35%, to touch Rs450 billion by March 2016
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Asia’s social stock exchange poised to list first Retail Impact Bond
The time is ripe to launch a retail impact bond in Asia, says former Wall Street investment banker Durreen Shahnaz
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The Impact Generation Has Arrived
Imagine for a minute that you can invest in one of two companies:
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- Impact Assessment
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As the World Bank Turns
Something exciting, almost revolutionary, is happening at one of the most conservative of the world's international institutions. The World Bank, which for decades has been criticized has overly focused on the construction of dams and other infrastructures as the cure for poverty, is turning its focus to the real engine of economic progress in the developing world: girls and women.
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Why USAID is shifting maternal health funds toward Africa, Asia
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — The US Agency for International Development announced today that 26 countries have done so well at achieving maternal and child health goals that they’re now on their own. Their funding will instead go to 24 countries where mothers and children are still dying at alarming rates.
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- Health Care
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How the US government can help spur impact investing
The field of impact investing is expanding, but key barriers could still be removed and incentives put in place by the U.S. government to boost growth and promote best practices, according to a new report released on Wednesday.
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