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The Global Aid Industry is Repeating the Mistakes that Caused the 2008 Financial Crisis: A Warning from a Former Leader at Lehman Brothers

James Militzer

In 2008, the failure of a single institution, Lehman Brothers, triggered a global financial crisis. We help farmers in over 70 countries, and this year we hope to surpass 2 million farmers whose lives we have impacted positively. This is the moment for private foundations, philanthropists and impact investors to step up.

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Impact Investing Passes $1 Trillion for First Time: Report

ESG Today

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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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation

By Jim Bildner In 2012, more than a decade ago, in response to a growing wave of impact investing obsession, Kevin Starr warned that impact investing was doomed to fail: “Few solutions that meet the fundamental needs of the poor will get you your money back,” he observed, and “overcoming market failure requires subsidy.”

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The Brief: Systemic impact investing (audio), China’s plant-based meat, CDFI merger, WorldRemit buys Sendwave, U.K. jobs bond, agri-tech trends in India

Impact Alpha

Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. The post The Brief: Systemic impact investing (audio), China’s plant-based meat, CDFI merger, WorldRemit buys Sendwave, U.K. The current discourse on. jobs bond, agri-tech trends in India appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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New report shows $200-billion drop in responsible investing market share in Canada

Corporate Knights

This reclassification reflects an increase in “conscious conservatism” by Canadian asset managers in the absence of industry- or government-regulated definitions, criteria or standards, she says, causing many managers “to err on the side of caution” and strip the “responsible investment” classification from some of their portfolios. .

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Samasource raises $14.8 million to connect tech giants with Africa’s data talent

Impact Alpha

Leila Janah founded Samasource in 2008 to help the emerging markets’ workforce The post Samasource raises $14.8 San Francisco-based Samasource trains and hires data reviewers in East Africa to tag photos and annotate other data sources for Fortune 500 companies.

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Q&A with Jeremy Grantham: Hold fossil fuel companies to account and make them ‘pariahs’

Impact Alpha

16 – Jeremy Grantham called the Japanese bubble of the 1980s, the tech bubble of the 2000s, and the housing bubble of 2008. ImpactAlpha, Jan. The British-born value investor has been warning of the risks of climate change long before it was fashionable.