Good.is: Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Collaborative Fund was founded a decade ago with the mission to support and invest in the shared future. Since then, the conversation around impact investing has only grown. Impact investing has evolved to mean different things to different people. Impact Investing | An Interactive History.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 14, 2024

Investors’ management, measurement and monitoring of impact investing strategies has been steadily improving. BlueMark identified significant improvement in how impact investors approached due diligence, with 65% conducting pre-investment assessments of impact-related risks and 42% establishing impact targets at the time of investment.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The value of portfolios classified as responsible investments (RI) dropped from $3.2 trillion on December 31, 2019, to $3 trillion at the end of 2021, according to the 2022 Canadian Responsible Investment Trends Report published last week by the Responsible Investment Association (RIA). .

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

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.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 9, 2020

9 – The fund, launched by Cedrus & Partners and Swiss Life Asset Managers in April 2019, aims to re-house up to 2,000 people facing difficulties over the next ten years via partners Samu social de Paris and Habitat et Humanisme. ImpactAlpha, Jan.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

Those of us who invested in 2019 or earlier are still doing well, but I feel terrible for people who jumped on the green energy bandwagon in 2020. Language has been standardized I’ve been frustrated by people misusing and conflating various sustainable investment strategies. Tim Nash is the founder of Good Investing.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

According to McKinsey, Africa’s growth slowed from 2010-2019, and while the continent’s GDP increased faster than its population in those years, the total number of Africans living in poverty increased by 30 million. This new organisation could be a game-changer for African investment. Photo courtesy Clement Eastwood.

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3BL Media

APRIL 10, 2024

We are grateful for their partnership and look forward to working together to continue to make impactful investments in the places we work and call home.” KeyBank's recent exam period covered January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2021.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Impact investment management firm BlueOrchard announced today the appointment of Martin Diaz Plata as Head of Private Equity Investments. Global investment manager Schroders acquired a majority stake in BlueOrchard in 2019.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 25, 2024

ImpactAlpha, January 25 — ABC Impact, the independently managed private equity impact investment firm owned by Temasek was launched in 2019 to take. The post Temasek’s ABC Impact rakes in $550 million for its second private equity fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 9, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Small businesses, big opportunities: Where to hunt for impact investments in Africa this year. The World Bankforecasts economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa to pick up to 2.9% (from an estimated 2.5%

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Northern Trust announced today it has released its latest Sustainability Report, highlighting efforts to bolster inclusion in the workplace, engage in philanthropic and social impact investing, and minimize the environmental impact of business operations.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Nestlé knew it had to invest in designing packaging for the future to meet its packaging commitments, so it established its Institute for Packaging Science in 2019 in Switzerland. That's really where the strong collaboration, the collective action of financial investments come into play,” Marciano added. ”So

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As part of the Total Fund Management, Investment Division, Murray will work closely with senior leaders and investment teams across the organization to lead Ontario Teachers’ plan to create “a lasting, positive impact while creating value for members”.

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ESG Today

JULY 20, 2023

New investors joining the funding round included Innovation Development Oman Investments, Vopak Ventures, and investors represented by impact investing advisory firm Sagana.

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3BL Media

JULY 2, 2024

Since 2019, ATEC has been leading the sector in technology for decarbonizing cooking and was recognised by UC Berkeley as 1 of 5 globally recommended cookstove carbon projects. In addition to the positive climate impact, the removal of smoke from cooking with wood will have significant health outcomes on women and children.

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ESG Today

JUNE 22, 2023

One of the report’s key findings is the rapid growth in impact funds, as impact investing moves from a niche strategy into the mainstream. Capital raised for impact funds surged in 2022 to nearly $34 billion from less than $13 billion the prior year, and from only $2.6 billion in 2019.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Asset owners urged to set holistic goals, managers encouraged to innovate, after GIIN report highlights measurement challenges. Impact investing is becoming a central strategy for large asset owners globally, but divergence remains over how asset managers balance financial risk and return expectations with their clients’ impact-related goals.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2023

MIM is a well-established global investment manager with specialist investment teams who incorporate relevant, financially material ESG factors into their risk management-focused investment processes. 1 Represents responsible investments managed by MIM at estimated fair value as of December 31, 2022.

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ESG Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The development of clean hydrogen capacity, such as green hydrogen, which uses renewable energy to power the process to extract hydrogen from other materials, will require massive investments in areas including infrastructure, electrolysis, and transport.

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ESG Today

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2019, the GSSB initiated a project to review the standards, aiming to improve the quality and consistency of sustainability reporting, with revised universal standards launched in 2021. Adams said: “With a growing recognition of the importance of sustainability reporting, GRI has a huge part to play.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Areas for improvement The opportunity to invest in adaptation comes at a time when responsible investment is growing in Australia, with regulation and investor demand among the factors supporting growth.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Neither the world’s financial firepower nor the impact of climate change is spread evenly, which means funding the transition to net zero is much harder and more urgent for emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) compared to developed ones. . If asset owners can feel confident that their capital will make a difference. .

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 4, 2019

4, 2019 – Real estate shapes our cities and neighborhoods. In Los Angeles, Nico, which calls itself a “neighborhood investment company,” The post ‘Neighborhood investment company’ helps Los Angeles residents buy back the block appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Dec. And capital shapes real estate.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The urgency and resonance of this topic was also reflected in the continued popularity of the 2019 feature, “ The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards ,” which was the most-read SSIR article of all this year. The Next 10 Years of Impact Investment.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2023

Investment flows from asset owners have contributed to the growth of the impact investment sector, but current levels of capital still fall short of driving real-world environmental and social progress in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). billion between 2016-18 to US$14 billion between 2019-21.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For example, our 2019 contest included multiple articles exploring the “African investment frenzy” that was raising eyebrows at the time. From Impact Investing to ‘Impact-First’ Investing: 
Seven Ways Investors Can Take a Holistic Lifecycle Approach to Impact.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In recent years, impact investing has become mainstream and private equity (PE) firms are playing a key role. Despite being dismissed by some as “woke capitalism”, impact investing is a trend that is here to stay. PE firms have helped to grow the popularity of impact investing.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The report presents learnings from a four-year program, launched in 2019 and continuing through the COVID-19 global pandemic, in which Accion, supported by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, worked with nine financial service providers and 50 fintech startups around the world to help small businesses leverage digital tools.

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3BL Media

JUNE 9, 2022

LACI selected Impact investment firm Mission Driven Finance of San Diego, California to assist with loan origination and servicing, as well as supporting underwriting. LACI first shared their DOE-funded research and commitment to creating a national cleantech debt fund at the Clinton Foundation economic conference in November 2019.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2022

Living Cities, a consortium of major US foundations and financial institutions, is an investor in the Employee Ownership Catalyst Fund recently launched by two California-based organizations, Project Equity , a nonprofit focused on business transitions to employee ownership, and Mission Driven Finance , an impact investment firm.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2024

The report was released in collaboration with the Local Pensions Partnership Investments (LPPI) and advisory firm The Good Economy – which co-founded the Place-Based Impact Investing Network alongside the Institute for Economic Development and the Impact Investing Institute last year. As of June 2023, around 4.4%

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

However, the European Sustainable Investment Funds Study 2022 , compiled by Morningstar in collaboration with The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) and consultancy Zeb, showed that even following the increase only 1.5% of total European funds’ net assets currently follow an impact investing approach.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impact” investments, your options are limited. We interviewed more than two dozen professionals with expertise in asset management, impact investment, asset allocation, and measurement. As a bonus, you may be able to see the results for yourself.

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A 2019 global survey by the International Renewable Energy Agency found that women represented just 32% of the clean energy workforce. A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency found that only 10.8% Clean energy employment worldwide reached 12 million in 2020 , and is expected to continue growing rapidly in the future.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 5, 2022

ImpactAlpha, December 5 – Aruwa Capital launched in 2019 to invest in Nigeria’s small and mid-sized businesses and help them build more inclusive. The post Nigeria’s Aruwa Capital raises more than $20 million for its first gender-lens fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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