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6 ways to change the world for as little as $20
Want to put your money where your heart is? Impact investing may be for you. This kind of investment aims to make the world a better place, and make you a profit.
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East Ventures announces new $30M fund to continue investing in Indonesia
This new $30 million fund is the firm’s sixth to date in Southeast Asia, and remarkably its second in 2017 alone. A $27.5 million fund announced in January was fully deployed in less than a year as outside interest in Southeast Asia blew up in 2017, with Indonesia the focal point for investors like Chinese web giants Alibaba and Tencent. Today marks the first close of the new fund.
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- Asia Pacific
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Impax Acquires Pax World To Create $14B Impact Investing Firm
Pax World Management, investment advisor to Pax World Funds with $4.5 billion in AUM, has been acquired by Impax Asset Management Group plc, a United Kingdom-based firm with $9.4 million in AUM. Both firms specialize in sustainable and impact investing.
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India: TPG leads $161m funding round in Janalakshmi Financial
According to a company statement, TPG is investing a “significant amount”, while existing investors Morgan Stanley Asia-managed PE fund Treeline, QRG Enterprises and Vallabh Bhansali also participated in the latest round.
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- South Asia
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Why Financial Advisors Are Still Reluctant to Jump on ESG Bandwagon
Asset managers and major brokerages think there’s big money to be made shilling these funds to advisors, with the likes of BlackRock, Bank of America and UBS highlighting the growing acceptance and mainstream popularity of SRI and “impact investing” strategies.
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IIX’s Women’s Livelihood Bond Officially Listed on the Singapore Exchange
The US$8 million debt security will impact over 385,000 women in Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines through enhanced access to credit, market linkages, and affordable goods and services that will build women’s resilience to socio-economic shocks and stresses.
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World’s first social impact bond achieved goals and repaid investors
But experts warn that the success of the One Service in Peterborough does not necessarily mean the SIB model will work elsewhere.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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The Rise of a New Asset Class: Can ‘PAYGo Finance’ Connect Investors to Low-Income Customers?
Lendable has pioneered a marketplace lending platform that connects alternative lenders in East Africa with impact and institutional debt investors, to provide financing for leased assets like solar panels and motorcycles. According to BFA, providing these alternative lenders with structured debt financing could potentially give rise to a new asset class: PAYGo finance. If successful in raising funds from investors at scale, the Lendable approach could bring financing for low-income individuals full circle.
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- Energy, Inclusive Fintech, Investing
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