Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 16, 2024

“Is it possible to fully divest from Wall Street and invest in community with hundreds of millions of dollars?” Kataly Foundation’s Lynne Hoey. The post Kataly Foundation charts an equitable bond strategy as it looks to spend down its reserves appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

Dominique Dijkhuis , Director of Investment Policy at ABP, admits there are limits to engagement in accelerating climate transition, with few companies fitting into a sustainable economy. Over the past decade, many asset owners have made divestments out of fossil fuels.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Alante Capital Management is a venture capital fund investing in innovative technologies that address climate change and enable a resilient, sustainable future for apparel production and retail. Alpha Impact Investment Management Partners. Responsible Investing Incorporating ESG Factors.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2023

Impact Frontiers is the successor organisation to the Impact Management Project. Mike McCreless, Executive Director of Impact Frontiers, said there was much debate over whether impact investing has an ‘impact’ but “the fact is there is no one answer to it,” he said.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It found in its Global Not-for-Profit Investment Survey that charitable investors view private markets as the biggest opportunity for higher returns over the coming years, alongside the ability to embed ESG factors, with diversification away from traditional asset classes being high on the agenda for trustees. Engagement to the fore.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 24, 2024

If they wanted to direct investments based on the value created for all stakeholders as well as the financial return of an investment, they could. This combination of social and financial returns, or “ blended value ,” was adopted initially by actors in the venture philanthropy and impact investing spaces.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Managers also reported applying fossil fuel divestment screens across US$1.2 Other priority themes for asset managers incorporating ESG into their investment decisions included avoidance of weapons, tobacco and corruption. “We Climate change was also the most important ESG issue for asset managers, addressed across US$3.4

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

Many investors scrambled to divest holdings, leading in some cases to significant financial losses, having failed to heed warnings and indicators that could have alerted them to future risks, including the 2014 annexing of Crimea.

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Steven Mintz

MARCH 8, 2022

Eradicating these investments from your portfolio is known as socially responsible investing (SRI). In addition to divesting from unethical stocks, you can make investments in companies that make a positive change in a practice called  impact investing. Environment,

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Ninety One has been among the first joiners of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s call on asset managers to review their approach to sustainable investing to ensure it does not unintentionally lead to divestment from EMs. Closing the gap Both public and private credit will be needed to address financing needs, Christ explained.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

More than 50% of UK pension funds already hold some kind of impact investment, according to a new survey by Pensions for Purpose and Big Society Capital, which also found that 90% of schemes are looking to make impact investments in the UK.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Utilising a bottom-up investment process, individual issuers will be selected based on HSBC AM’s Sustainability Assessment, and companies will be divested from if they are unable to demonstrate measures that will improve the sustainability of its operations in line with its objectives.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The common use of ‘materiality’ and ‘scenario analysis’ reported by managers suggests these are already prevalent topics, while scarce mentions of ‘divestment effectiveness assessment’ or ‘enlightened active ownership’ “is consistent with the view that, in general, they are future behaviours,” the report said.

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 30, 2021

From experience we know at G&A Institute that when firms move out of P/E portfolio (via IPO, SPAC , acquisition by larger firm, management buyout, other means) the proactive burnishing of corporate ESG reputations can be a big plus in the divestment of today’s P/E entity. TOP STORIES.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

“The areas we’ve laid out in phase two ensure we are focusing on actual emissions reductions, not just the targets,” says Maier, who is also Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment at asset management firm GAM Investments, adding that transition plans are central to achieving net zero.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 10, 2022

“Trustees for universal investors need to embrace the idea that addressing system-level risks requires system-level stewardship; going beyond selection, engagement and/or divestment of assets to look at market incentives and failures, policy and reporting, collaborative engagement, and company transitions,” he says.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2024

Norway-based asset manager Storebrand recently excluded First International Bank of Israel for its involvement in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, while a number of major European banks and pension funds divested from Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 3, 2022

Impact investing on the ESHG level is about investing in companies. ESHG-minded Investors can leverage their financial power by divesting from companies that aren’t doing healthy business. Hold companies and investees accountable.

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James Militzer

APRIL 14, 2025

To avoid this, lenders should take proactive steps to restructure debt, while shareholders should act decisively either supporting the company or divesting. model show that the industry can be impactful and sustainable.

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