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MaRs launches Social Venture Connection, SVX
Socially-minded investors in Ontario who want to make a difference while making a profit have a new financial tool at their fingertips. The MaRs Discovery District’s Social Venture Connection, or SVX, is launching at the Toronto Stock Exchange Thursday.
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Sankalp & SOCAP enter global alliance to further Impact Investing market
Intellecap initiative Sankalp Forum announced a strategic partnership with Social Capital Markets, convener of the international SOCAP conference series, in San Francisco during SOCAP ‘13. Sankalp Forum is an enabling platform that helps social enterprises find investors, mentors and scale. And SOCAP works towards increasing the flow of capital towards social good.
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Let’s Make Money More
Impact investing is still seen as a niche market – yet to “cross the chasm” into the mainstream, as we say in the technology world.
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Announcing NextBillion Financial Innovation: Our newest blog banks on progress
It seems that nearly every day a financial provider, a technology designer or an entrepreneur (or other innovator) is unveiling a new wedge to crack open the door for people traditionally shut out of the financial system. Telling their stories, sharing their insights, debating the consequences of their advancements (or setbacks, as the case may be), this is the guiding principle of NextBillion Financial Innovation, the new blog we’re proudly launching today.
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Weekly Roundup – SOCAP13 Takeaways: Plus, things we could take away (completely) from buzzwords
Regardless of whether “manufacturing,” “inventory,” or “design” follows it, “lean” is a buzz word that has zipped around the business lexicon for the better part of a decade. But a word to the wise: it does not apply well to every sector – including ours, i.e. the social sector.This and other takeaways from SOCAP13.
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Impact Investment Lawyering: Educating a new kind of lawyer
In the fall of 2008, the University of Michigan Law School launched an International Transactions Clinic (ITC), a first of its kind in legal education. During the last five years, the ITC has provided this unique, experiential learning opportunity to nearly 80 students who, in turn, have advised real social enterprise conducting more than 100 transactions around the globe.
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Developing Healthier Habits
Health-care companies facing a host of profit-threatening conditions—such as pricing pressures, patent expirations and sluggish economic growth in mature markets—are beginning to build some immunity by boosting their exposure to the developing world.According to Julia Giguere, a senior analyst who covers the health-care sector for MSCI ESG Research in Boston, developing countries are experiencing stronger economic and population growth than the developed world. They also boast rising middle classes and they increasingly need products that can address shifting disease burdens.
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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 3: Mainstreaming impact investing, healing Detroit and developing communities
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here’s their rundown of Day 3 (Thursday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from three of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
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