Robert Rubinstein wants to create an economy that nurtures well-being. For two decades, he has worked tirelessly to encourage business leaders and investors to join him. Rubinstein’s Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI) Conference is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week […]
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Whether it concerns climate change, supply chains, human rights or corruption, investors increasingly seek to better understand the impact that their investments are having. One recent Bank of America press release states that three-quarters of investors want to work with an advisor […]
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UBS Investment Bank is launching a series of breakthrough investment products aligned to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A pre-defined portion of revenues will be donated as philanthropic contributions, managed by the UBS Optimus Foundation, our dedicated philanthropic […]
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Alecta allocates 100 million dollars to invest in the NN-FMO Emerging Markets Loan fund. To Alecta, this investment presents an attractive opportunity to finance sustainable development projects while generating stable returns to our beneficiaries. As the Agenda 2030 and the […]
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How does a fifth-generation member of one of Europe’s most notable family businesses continue its long tradition of social consciousness? By launching a second career as an impact investing pioneer. Daniel Bardsley reports. Many people, after two or three decades […]
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De NWB Bank heeft voor de tweede keer dit jaar een Affordable Housing Bond (social bond) uitgegeven. Dit keer gaat het om een 30 jaars-benchmark Housing Bond ter grootte van € 600 miljoen. Niet eerder gaf de NWB Bank een […]
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One of the great challenges of impact investing is knowing how much impact reporting to require from the ventures you invest in, remembering that startups face plenty of challenges without layering on needless reporting. On the other hand, impact investors want […]
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De vraag naar de Rabo Impactlening blijft onverminderd hoog. Daardoor krijgt de lening met rentekorting voor bedrijven met een positieve impact wederom een vervolg. De Rabobank heeft gelden van de Europese Investeringsbank (EIB) beschikbaar gekregen voor een derde tranche van […]
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ABN AMRO gaat samenwerken met Root Capital, een Amerikaanse impact investor in de agri-sector. Vanuit de samenwerking worden ‘impact’ leningen verstrekt aan kleine boerenbedrijven. ABN AMRO participeert sinds vorige maand in leningen aan koffie-coöperaties in Latijns-Amerika. Hiermee worden zo’n 4.000 […]
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Toniic Institute, the global action community for impact investors, today released T100: Insights from Impact Advisors and Consultants 2017, at the Berlin Green Investment Summit. This is the second report in the T100 Research Project, a longitudinal study of 100% […]
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Social investor and worldwide cooperative Oikocredit funded inclusive finance organisations reaching 40 million people last year, 84 per cent of which were women. The results, released today, are part of a suite of outcomes indicators published in Oikocredit’s latest Social […]
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Triodos Investment Management heeft twee online Impact Reports gepubliceerd waarin zij reflecteert op haar rol en activiteiten binnen twee sectoren: Inclusive Finance (microfinanciering) en de Europese markt voor duurzame voeding en consumptiegoederen. De Impact Rapporten presenteren de resultaten over 2016 […]
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