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Press Release: Golding Enters Impact Market With €300 Million Global Private Equity Fund
With “Golding Impact 2021” the Munich-based asset manager is pursuing a global private equity impact strategy based on environmental and social sustainability targets that are ambitious, quantifiable and integrated.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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Interview: Can Business Solve Global Problems? Lessons From Abraaj
Devex spoke with Simon Clark, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who covered the story and recently co-authored a book about it, titled “The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale.”
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: DFC Announces Call for Applications for Climate-Focused Investment Funds
"Climate change is negatively impacting health and productivity, food production, and critical infrastructure around the world, but people in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the impacts from climate change,” said DFC Chief Operating Officer David Marchick.
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- Environment, Investing
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Press Release: Impact Investors Approaching Performance and Capital Allocation With Increasing Sophistication to Maximize Financial and Impact Objectives
GIIN’s new report uncovers insights into the decision-making approaches of impact investors targeting risk-adjusted, market-rate returns.
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- Investing
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COVID May Be Impact Investing’s Defining Moment, Actis’s Shami Nissan Says
In the corporate world, socially responsible behavior is being put to the test, too — revealed as either phony marketing or a true commitment to global betterment.
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- Investing, Technology
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Omidyar Network Announces Initial Grants from COVID-19 Economic Response Advocacy Fund
Omidyar Network selected eight organizations in its initial round of funding from its to COVID-19 Economic Response Advocacy Fund. The Fund will infuse 501(c)(4) funding into national, state, and local advocacy and organizing efforts to address the toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on working families.
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- Coronavirus
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Navigating Risks as Private Equity Moves into Impact Investing: Examples from Kenya
It's no surprise that impact investing has been adopted by development-focused organizations – but it has increasingly also attracted the attention of more profit-driven institutions, including some leading private equity firms. While this represents a milestone in the sector's march toward the mainstream, Julio De Souza and Gianluca Storchi at StratLink Advisory Group discuss some persistent concerns – illustrated with examples from their home base in Kenya.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Arohan in Talks With Sovereign Wealth Funds, PEs to Raise $200M
Arohan plans to complete the fundraise in the next few months, and is in discussions with sovereign wealth funds.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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