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We expanded our partnership in 2022, with a three-year investment focused on impacting youth in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa through a new program that supports learning to earning pathways in growing digital and green economies. The challenges are great, but so are the opportunities.
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Copenhagen-based Kristensen will account for regional variations in effort to deepen direct institutional relationships with sustainability-focused manager. billion) across listed and private markets strategies, specialising in the investment opportunities arising from the transition to a more sustainableglobaleconomy.
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