Tag: impact investing
5 Unexpected Impact Investments in COVID-19 Recovery
While impact investors are typically focused on a longer-term outlook, it’s impossible amid a global coronavirus pandemic not to look at the...
U.N.’s COVID-19 Response May Mobilize Impact Investors
The U.N. launched a COVID-19 plan to end the pandemic and rebuild a post-virus economy.
Secretary-General Guterres says the pandemic is signaling the...
Investment Dollars Flow Into Circular Economy As Concerns Over Plastic Trash...
Just as money moves around in a financial system, seeding companies and wealth, investors are seeking startups that give trash a few...
Top 10 Impact Investing Trends for 2020
Key Takeaway: We enter the new decade full of promise for innovation and discoveries in healthcare, financial services and clean energy. Here...
U.S. Wants to Know if ESG Funds are Investing Socially as...
With record money flowing into investment funds marketing themselves as socially responsible, it was only a matter of time before regulators stepped...
Investors Seeing Green With Bets on Ag Biotech, as Key to...
As the farm industry sparks worries about everything from genetically modified food to climate change, impact investors are increasingly betting on a...
The Promise and Limits of SDGs as Guidelines for the Impact...
When every government in the world and a kaleidoscope of private stakeholders negotiated the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, they had no...
Impact Investing’s Solid 2019 Isn’t Due to Gods of Virtue, but...
Impact investing appears to be heading for a very good 2019. But don’t thank any gods of virtue -- give credit to...
One Year After a “Crazy Idea,” Impact-Focused Film Festival Kicks Off...
This time a year ago, Matt Ackermann had what he calls a “crazy idea.”
This idea became ESG &...
International Finance Group Proposes New, Simpler Language for Sustainable Investing Terms
New guidelines released today by the Institute of International Finance aim to clear up the language used to describe sustainable investment and...
Wanted: Private Equity Firms Seek ESG Professionals in a Push to...
Private equity firms, responding to surging demand for ethical investing opportunities, plan on hiring more professionals focused on environmental, social and governance...
Dire Warning: Investments Ignoring Changing Climate Can “Go to Zero Quickly,”...
Climate change is a risk not only to the planet -- it also threatens to blow up portfolios.
That’s...
Align17’s Georgie Benardete on Investing in the Invisible
“Is mining the sky a better investment than mining the earth?”
This might not seem like an obvious question...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Embraces Sustainability as a “Fresh Start” and Profit...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has found that sustainability isn’t just good for public relations. Along with a growing number of leading companies, the...
Barclays Launches Impact Banking Unit as Investors Demand More Than Market-Beating...
British financial services giant Barclays has joined a host of global banking rivals ramping up efforts to find companies that will generate...
Advancing the Impact Investing Narrative: Three Takeaways from SOCAP19
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More than 3,000 investors, entrepreneurs and executives convened at...
Time to “Prove It”; Impact Investors in Amsterdam Challenged to Speak...
Key Takeaway: Panelists at the Global Impact Investing Network Investor Forum in...
New Metrics ’19 Connects the Dots in Impact Measurement & Reporting
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Sustainability and impact investing are gaining traction with...
Aussie Investors “Shifting Capital” as Global Warming Becomes National Health Crisis
Global warming is doing more in Australia than sparking a health crisis. It’s changing the way some investors think about where to...
SOCAP19 Celebrates the Power of “Valuable Strangers” in Impact Investing
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Addressing the world’s greatest challenges requires collaboration, but many conferences in...
Accion’s Venture Lab Announces $33 Million Fund to Expand Inclusive Fintech...
Kenyan shopkeepers, Chinese farmers and U.S. migrant workers are all vital parts of the global economy. The formal economy, though, has mostly...
For Calvert, It’s 2007 All Over Again as Securitization Returns to...
Calvert Impact Capital veered off the beaten path with its latest impact investment -- buying a stake in a $175 million pool...
New Tools Emerge to Measure Water Risk Exposure
For investors, companies and governments seeking to assess water risk exposure, there are more solutions than ever to dig deep for water...
How Millennials’ Values Are Already Impacting Investing Around the World
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Two significant shifts are reshaping the private funds...
KKR’s Impact Fund Said to Top $1 Billion on Robust ESG...
KKR & Co.’s fundraising for its first Global Impact Fund surpassed its goal, as bets on investments intended to provide a social...
Fitch Ratings Pitches ESG Heat Map as Demand Rises for Impact...
Fitch Ratings released a tool showing the relevance of environment, social and governance factors to credit ratings in different industries, as investor...
What Happens When Legacy Asset Firms Start Investing for Impact?
The announcement that British asset manager Schroders would acquire a majority stake in the impact investing firm BlueOrchard Finance is the latest...
Social Impact Investing Isn’t a Money-Loser, Economists’ Study Says
Debate swirls around whether environmentally friendly companies outperform the wider universe of firms. A study by Stanford and Yonsei university economists offers...
Ethic Lands High Profile Backing For Sustainable Investing Tool
Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures, Fidelity Investments and the U.K.’s Theo Osborne were among high-profile firms backing Ethic Inc. in its latest funding...