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M&G Backs Launch of Sustainable Food-Focused Impact Investment Funds with £200 Million Commitment

ESG Today

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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Microfinance lender MicroVest is acquired by development company DAI

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, December 2 – MicroVest launched in 2003 to expand access to capital to microfinance institutions in emerging markets and facilitate impact investment. The post Microfinance lender MicroVest is acquired by development company DAI appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Understanding Blended Value

3BL Media

While blended value sounds remarkably similar to triple bottom line value, Emerson approached the subject more through the emergent field of impact investing, which he is widely credited with helping to define and popularise. In his book, The Purpose of Capital , he looks behind the “how” to explore the “why” of investing.

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Kohlberg Acquires Majority Stake in Energy Transition-Focused Services Provider CLEAResult

ESG Today

Founded in 2003, Austin, Texas-based CLEAResult provides services and solutions to utility, government, and commercial customers to design and implement comprehensive energy efficiency programs help reduce energy usage, costs and emissions and enhance grid reliability. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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M&G Fuels Impact M&A Trend

Chris Hall

UK manager’s Swiss acquisition strengthens impact investing ambitions. London-based M&G has become the latest large investment group to burnish its sustainable investment credentials by taking a position in a specialist impact investment firm. billion of assets under management.

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The Next Generation of DFI Technical Assistance: Why it’s Time for Development Finance Institutions to Take a Standardised Approach

James Militzer

In the impact investing space, the Global Impact Investing Network’s IRIS+ offers a standardised impact measurement system that has been widely adopted across the industry.

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Walmart workers are ‘Still Broke’: The limits of socially conscious capitalism (Q&A)

Impact Alpha

In 2003, journalist Rick Wartzman was overseeing the business section of the Los Angeles Times. His team produced a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of. The post Walmart workers are ‘Still Broke’: The limits of socially conscious capitalism (Q&A) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.