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Arcmont Secures €475 Million Investment Mandates from APG, TIAA for New Impact Lending Strategy

ESG Today

The new strategy is being rolled out with two mandates, totaling 475 million (USD$518 million) already secured, from global pension asset manager APG, and pension, insurance and investment services provider TIAA, one of the the worlds largest institutional investors.

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Lessons from a Decade of Investing in a Frontier Market: What Impact Investors Can Learn from Nepal’s First International Private Equity Fund

James Militzer

The Challenges of Bringing Private Equity Investing to a Frontier Market I launched Dolma Impact Fund I in 2011, along with its fund manager Dolma Fund Management, achieving its first close in 2014. Our mission for Nepal was apparent, even though our path to it was not. Tim Gocher is Founder and CEO of Dolma Fund Management.

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ESG Is Not Impact Investing and Impact Investing Is Not ESG

Stanford Social Innovation

If you find yourself using the terms ESG and impact investing interchangeably, you’re not alone. This is not surprising given that much of the underlying progress in socially- or environmentally-focused investing over the last 15 years has been driven by governments, particularly those in the EU and the UK.

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Lessons in frontier finance from 40 impact investments

Impact Alpha

Omnivore, an India-based venture fund, for example, invested in Delhi-based Skymet Weather Services in 2011 to generate better weather data necessary for crop insurance and lines of credit for India’s small farmers. The firm’s crop The post Lessons in frontier finance from 40 impact investments appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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AllianceBernstein: Municipal Impact Investing - Bonds That Transform Our Communities

3BL Media

Marc Uy is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for AB's Municipal Impact products. In 2011, Uy was promoted to associate portfolio manager and implemented investment strategies and monitored risk exposures across AB's municipal platform. About the Authors.

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Impact Investing for African Private Equity

Chris Hall

Vital Capital’s Head of Impact, Tamar Pashtan, talks about driving transformative change and delivering market-rate returns in emerging markets – particularly sub-Saharan Africa. billion, according to the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) 2023 report. Effectively, we’re creating our own deal flow.”

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Why Gender Diversity May Lead to Better Returns for Investors

3BL Media

Investing in equality for women can potentially increase a company’s—and your portfolio’s—bottom line. DESCRIPTION: By Lily Trager, Wealth Management, Director of Impact Investing. While COVID-19 has impacted all of us, it has disproportionately affected women, especially women of color. Our expert explains. 14 US Pat.