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Impact Investment Performance: Tiptoeing Toward Transparency
The recent release of details about the performance of several impact investment portfolios and funds is another step toward answering the question more and more investors are asking: Is impact a boost -- or a bust -- in terms of financial returns?
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, research
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Socially Responsible Funds: Should You Bother?
On paper, socially responsible funds sound fantastic. You pick a cause, and fund managers funnel your money into companies that further that cause. Everybody wins.Yet while socially responsible funds may help idealistic investors sleep better at night, shareholders may not be getting their money's worth.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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5 reasons impact investing is not for you
Seemingly simple and beneficial to all, impact investing is far more than simple philanthropy
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Swiss insurer invests $1B to fight global warming
Zurich Insurance is investing $1 billion to fight climate change in a sign of growing demand for socially conscious investing.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Why Khosla Impact Is Investing Nearly $2M in This Plug-and-Play Solar Firm
Off-grid applications are cleantech's next big market. Nowhere is this more true than in Africa, where the International Energy Agency predicts population growth will outstrip grid expansion to leave 645 million people without power.It’s predictably tough for companies in this vast market to stick out from the pack. In order to get a sense of how companies can achieve success in this space, I sat down to chat with Mansoor Hamayun, the CEO of U.K.-based BBOXX, on the eve of a Series A investment from Khosla Impact.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, solar
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Impact investors now tap urban poor market
Impact investment funds and social entrepreneurs are now targeting social ventures that cater to the urban poor segment. There is a visible departure from earlier practice where the focus of most impact funds was on funding micro finance institutions, catering largely to the rural poor, and similar base-of-pyramid ventures in a rural set up.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Accion’s Venture Lab Closes Two New Investments
Impact-investing initiative announces close of investments in seed-stage companies that provide payments, health care and microinsurance products to clients at the base of the pyramid.
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- Health Care
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Opening the Curtain on the New 2.0 Era of Impact Investing
Impact investing has not been growing as quickly as many practitioners might have hoped.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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