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Impact Investors Still Chasing A Too-Small Pool Of Companies
Interest in impact investing continues to increase, even as investors report a shortage of promising opportunities.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, research
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BLOG: Momentum Builds for 100 Percent Impact Investment Movement
When I first started working in impact investing, the field's challenges were foundational: refining the concept, finding suitable investments, figuring out how to measure impact, even determining what to call the concept. Work in all those areas continues, but the field has matured to the point where it's on the agenda of the G8, finance conglomerates feel they need to have an impact product, and the mainstream business press is taking notice (if skeptically). N
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Equity Crowdfunding Platform Return on Change Has Million-Dollar Baby
It may happen in careful, tiptoeing steps, but a local equity crowdfunding platform is maturing.
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- Technology
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JP Morgan & GIIN survey highlights higher impact investment commitments
Widespread commitment to allocate 19% more capital to impact investments in 2014 compared to 2013 revealed by JP Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) survey.
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- Uncategorized
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U.K. Institutional Investors Keen to Increase Social Investment Activity, Says Report
New sources of capital for the UK social investment market are likely to be local authority pension funds, charities with large endowments and housing associations, says a new report.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- impact investing
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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact
Social enterprise in the U.S. is a fast-growing, but fragmented, movement.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, scale
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More Questions than Answers: Impact investors struggle to present their sector to the general public
What qualifies as “impact” investing – and how exactly should non-financial impacts be measured? Those may seem like pretty basic questions. Yet at the recent Sustainatopia Impact Conference, clear answers were in short supply, as a young sector works toward a consensus on the best way to present itself to mainstream investors.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Investing in Nature: New Sources of Capital
Two hundred and fifty billion dollars: that's the gap between the estimated need to support global conservation efforts and what's currently devoted to these activities annually, according to a recent study.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, scale
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