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Morgan Stanley Pledges $1 Billion in Sustainable Investing Push
The biggest U.S. banks have sought to combine their abilities of advising companies and allocating capital with socially minded pursuits in the wake of public outrage and government rescues resulting from the financial crisis
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ImpactAssets launches free online resource for impact investors and their advisors
The annual compilation includes experienced fund managers representing a broad range of investment opportunities that deliver social and/or environmental benefits along with financial returns.
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Gate Global Impact Partners With U.N. To Capitalize Social Entrepreneurs
Gate Global Impact announced at the recent United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit a plan to feature select companies from the U.N.’s soon-to-be-launched Social Enterprise Action Hub on the Gate Global Impact GATEWAY Platform, a crowdfunding platform for social entrepreneurs to pitch impact investors.
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The founder of eBay aims to be a more entrepreneurial philanthropist than his predecessors
In 2004 Mr Omidyar (the founder of eBay) replaced his foundation with a new organisation, Omidyar Network, which sees itself as an active investor, not a passive donor, and is free to put money equally into for-profit and non-profit ventures.
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Can you make money and feel good about it?
Want to make money while helping the people around you? Impact investing may have the answer.
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Social Stock Exchange – the rise of international competitors
The UK is no longer the only country with a social stock exchange, as Canada follows suit with its own version
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Impact Investing, Soros-Style
The Soros Economic Development Fund is quasi-philanthropic and invests in high-risk projects in parts of the world most people couldn’t find on a map. But the Fund is self-sufficient and boasts a “blended” portfolio return of 8 percent a year. How do they do it?
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Think Globally, Innovate Locally: If you’re trying to serve individual customers, you can’t be a plane ride away, says Accion Venture Lab’s Paul Breloff
Here’s a common quote among entrepreneurs: “We’re focused on the BoP in [pick an emerging market] – but our senior management team is based in [some fully emerged market].” But as Accion Venture Lab’s Paul Breloff argues, if you’re trying to serve individual customers, you’ve got to immerse yourself in the countless intangibles that make up their daily lives.
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