ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Impact investing assets under management worldwide have reached $1.164 trillion, according to an estimate in a new report by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), surpassing the trillion-dollar mark for the first time.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Global investment manager Schroders announced the launch of Schroder International Selection Fund (Schroder ISF) Global Equity Impact, a new listed global equity impact fund aimed at investing in companies with solutions and actions addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The global impact investment market is estimated to be worth US $1.16 trillion, but less than 2% of these investments are channeled to Africa’s health markets. It also has a low health worker-to-patient ratio — a gap amplified by the mass exodus of health workers to developed countries.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 21, 2022

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The Week in Impact Investing: Abundance ?? Developing ??sustainable. The post The Brief: The Week in impact investing: Abundance appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Abundance agenda. Deploying clean energy faster. Building more affordable homes. sustainable.

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ESG Today

APRIL 3, 2023

Handmade craft marketplace Etsy announced that launch of the Etsy Impact Investment Fund, allocating $30 million to impact investments targeting economic empowerment and sustainability. The post Etsy Launches $30 Million Impact Investment Fund appeared first on ESG Today.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Jean-Pierre Touzet, Head of the Agri-Agro – Guarantee – Capital Development division of Crédit Agricole, said: “This new fund offers companies in the agricultural and agri-food sector an alternative and complementary financing solution to traditional debt. The strategy has a total fundraising target of €750 million.

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“It’s hurdle, after hurdle, after hurdle, after hurdle,” says Polo Leteka, founder and chairman of IDF Capital , a Johannesburg-based investment and advisory firm. And that’s what makes it prohibitive for a lot of fund managers, or potential fund managers, to get into this (impact investing) space.”

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Impact Alpha

JULY 8, 2020

ImpactAlpha, July 8 – Eight small grants from the $14 million Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing suggest the outlines of a 2021 policy agenda, no matter who wins the November U.S. Expansion of capital for community development financial institutions, or CDFIs. Impact investing has. Standards for quality jobs.

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Environmental Finance

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Investors that retrospectively tag assets for 'alignment' with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not impact investors and produce "impact by coincidence", said the CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).

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3BL Media

MAY 25, 2022

This article shares a couple of our key findings from the search and selection process with Inthallo in an effort to start a conversation and grow consensus within the sustainable finance and impact investment space. 2021 EDI Survey for Sustainable Finance & Impact Investment Professionals. Application Accessibility.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 31, 2020

As the world tries to grapple with emergencies like COVID and climate, racial injustice and inequality, it’s arriving at vehicles and approaches that have been incubated, in some cases for decades, by community and impact investors. and other community development finance institutions, or. The Local Initiatives Support Corp.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

President and CEO at Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), and Acre’s Gloria Mirrione , Head of Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing to discuss the important role CDFIs are playing in ESG and sustainability-focused economic development. We can develop these qualities within your existing teams too.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The new sustainability strategy follows the launch in 2019 of BNPP AM’s first GSS, focused on the integration of ESG factors into its investment processes and boosting its engagement and stewardship approach on ESG issues.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 14, 2023

Investment manager Nuveen announced today the appointment of Ted Maa as Managing Director, Private Equity Impact Investing. Based in New York, Maa will have responsibility for identifying, executing and managing direct private equity investments in key thematic impact sectors.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Sustainability-focused search, recruitment and talent development firm Acre announced today the appointment of Gloria Mirrione as Head of Sustainable Finance & Impact investing, Americas. driving growth in sustainable finance & impact investing, according to the firm.

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3BL Media

APRIL 25, 2022

How Impact Investing moves capital to where it’s needed most. In my 15-year career working as a woman in impact investing and its various facets geared towards investing in women, I have learned that communities and families benefit greatly when women thrive economically. SOURCE: GreenMoney Journal.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2022

Global investment manager Schroders and nature protection organization Conservation International announced today a new partnership aimed at accelerating investment in natural climate solutions in South East Asia, establishing Singapore-based natural capital impact investment manager Akaria Natural Capital.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Originally published on bloomberg.com Bloomberg today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind tool that investors can use to assess the potential impact of a company’s business on any of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 3 trillion per year for developing countries ( UN Sustainable Development Group ).

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Missing Middle Agriculture is a central economic pillar in rural communities, especially in developing countries. In some developing countries, up to two-thirds of the population are employed in agriculture, a sector that can account for more than 25 percent of GDP. But there is more.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

International savings and investments business M&G plc announced today that it will invest £200 million in two new investment strategies targeting global food challenges being launched by its recently acquired impact investment business responsAbility.

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And despite the hype about impact investing, few funds exist to support entrepreneurs at the proof-of-concept or seed stage. In 2020, only 2 percent of all investable assets went to impact companies. Grant funding is nearly nonexistent.

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3BL Media

JULY 1, 2022

Capital Impact Partners, LIIF, Raza Development Fund and Reinvestment Fund lead new initiative to increase racial equity in real estate development. housing development market is known for high barriers to entry — and today, real estate developers of color make up less than five percent of the industry.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 1, 2022

The UK impact investment market was worth an estimated £58 billion in 2020, according to research by the UK Impact Investing Institute (III) and EY, representing 3.3-8% This will unblock significantly more capital flows for impact investing,” she said, Impact allocations and returns increasing.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 30, 2022

Hosted on GIIN’s impact management platform IRIS+ , the beta Financial Inclusion Impact Performance Benchmark aims to provide data across a set of KPIs to assess financial opportunities, resilience and economic development within the financial services sector. billion in 2026. . universal access to clean water). .

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 9, 2020

are helping develop. The post The Week in impact investing: Reconstruction appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Today’s confluence of pandemic, dislocation and popular mobilization presents our own opportunity for systemic change. Anne Price and her colleagues at the Insight Center in Oakland, Calif.,

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

recap of the week in impact investing. The Week’s Agent of Impact Ellis Carr, Capital Impact Partners. Community development financial institutions, or CDFIs, have been making loans for decades. The post The Week in impact investing: Blueprint to scale appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 17, 2021

ImpactAlpha, May 17 — Investing in higher education and workforce development for minorities and underserved communities, through financing structures like income share agreements, The post Accountability for outcomes can spur impact investments in educational income share agreements appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Impact investing is one way. Muni managers may bill themselves as impact investors. But their approaches could be other forms of ESG investing in disguise—some just greenwashing or social washing—or they don’t have the roadmap, experience and resources to meet your impact goals.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 24, 2020

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The Week’s Agent of Impact Faheen Allibhoy, J.P. Morgan Development Finance Institution. Most development finance institutions are government-owned entities seeking to mobilize capital from banks and other private investors.

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3BL Media

JUNE 8, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Cleveland, June 8, 2022 /3BL Media – KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investments (CDLI) provided a $20 million term loan to Enterprise Community Loan Fund Inc. Partnerships like this directly support developers of color whose access to capital has historically been minimized. SOURCE: KeyBank.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Featured: The Week's Agent of Impact, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, development economist. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Leadership appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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James Militzer

AUGUST 17, 2022

As the world grapples with complex societal problems ranging from weak health systems to climate change, impact investing is playing an important role in creating an alternative path to addressing them. The Global Impact Investing Network estimates that the industry reached $715 billion in assets under management in 2020.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious setback for sustainable development. At the same time, the SDGs provide an inclusive framework for post-COVID-19 economic recovery, and for development decoupled from negative environmental impacts. in development aid to fill the gaps in lower-income countries.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 5, 2020

ImpactAlpha, May 5 – Domini Impact Investments, a women-led investment advisor, has developed the Domini Sustainable Solutions Fund to give everyday investors a lower-volatility impact equities product.

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Environmental Finance

JULY 27, 2022

Impact investing is now "widespread" in sovereign wealth funds and will continue to grow, especially within developing economies, said Invesco.

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ESG Today

JULY 19, 2023

Barclays announced a series of new senior appointments to its Sustainable and Sustainable and Impact Investment Banking (SIB) team, including Arnoud Boksteijn as Managing Director, Cindy Quan as a Director and Head of Americas ESG Advisory, and Bogdan Oprea as a Director.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 15, 2020

The network of community development financial institutions, or CDFIs, built over decades, is rallying to extend loans where most banks don’t reach: in low-income. The post The Week in impact investing: Systemic appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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