A discussion paper from Oxfam and Sumerian Partners questions some of the assumptions around impact investment and highlights the experience of enterprises contributing to poverty reduction so that they might be better served by the field. It argues that the […]
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ASADRA, a global marketplace for conscious fashion, today announced a partnership with Voyage, a venture catalyst firm, as the start-up seeks to raise further investment to fund its ‘go to market’ strategy. Aimed at customers who value products with purpose, […]
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Today’s landscape of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) funds is the result of more than thirty years of investment innovation. In the main, investors have tried to define and limit the ‘inputs’ into an investment process; first through ethical screens, […]
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If you haven’t heard of impact investing yet, just wait. It’s one of the hottest areas in investing, and the industry is racing to offer more opportunities for people to put their money into investments that deliver a positive impact […]
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The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) today published the seventh edition of its Annual Impact Investor Survey report, which presents continued progress in the dynamic impact investing industry, officially established only ten years ago. Capturing data from 209 of the […]
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Social Impact Ventures (Social IV), het grootste onafhankelijke social impact fonds van Nederland, investeert 750.000 euro in onderwijsinnovator Bomberbot. De onderneming, actief in Nederland en Finland, helpt leerlingen tussen de acht en twaalf jaar ‘21st century skills’ bij te brengen […]
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Met interviews in verschillende kranten, (online) tijdschriften en zelfs op de landelijke televisie, trapte CEO Peter Heijen de entree van Lendahand in België af. Kanaal Z Op 3 maart was Peter te gast bij Kanaal Z (video). Hij vertelde aan Veronique Goossens dat er werkgelegenheid […]
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Impactbeleggen zowel het verschil maken voor mens en milieu als winst maken, volgens de definitie van het Global Impact Investing Network. Daarvoor bestaat tal van financiële instrumenten zoals microkrediet, groene obligaties, klimaatfondsen maar het kan ook met een openbaar verhandelbaar […]
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Yesterday social investor and worldwide cooperative Oikocredit published its financial results for 2016, revealing a development financing portfolio of €1,047.2 million, up 16% on 2015. The results reconfirm the cooperative’s commitment to using investors’ funds to improve the quality of […]
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At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, UBS launched a white paper that set out a blueprint for channeling private wealth into the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It argued that private capital is likely to be particularly important […]
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Realizing the opportunity to use capital for greater purposes than financial returns alone, investors across asset classes are aligning their investments with their values. By doing so, they are embracing the belief that it is not only a benefit to […]
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Hare Majesteit Koningin Máxima woont dinsdagochtend 21 maart in het Vredespaleis in Den Haag de opening bij van de derde editie bij van de ‘Impact Summit Europe 2017’ die op 21 en 22 maart wordt gehouden. De internationale bijeenkomst richt […]
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