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January 28, 2013
Do investors really care about sustainability?
This post highlights, through several examples, how companies are concentrating on their sustainability outcomes to ensure that their financial outcomes are aligned to their goals. Read more here.
January 28, 2013
Venture Social Investment: Decreasing poverty, increasing profit
This post explains the concept of VSI, or Venture Social Investment. While Venture Capitalists want to see the highest returns financially, Venture Social Investors are applying a number of innovative concepts to enhance social outcomes, while playing on already thin budgets of many international aid efforts. Read more here.
January 28, 2013
Six reasons why impact investing needs an index
‘Investment loves an index’. This post talks about the need for an index specially designed for impact investment. While typical financial investment indexes financial returns, impact investment requires to index dual concerns – both impact, and financial returns. Read a list of reasons why impact investment needs its own investment […]
January 28, 2013
The next 20 years of impact investing
In this post, Lisa Hall, Calvert Foundation’s CEO, talks about an on-going paradigm shift that is happening in the investment scenario globally. Having attended serial conferences, mostly based around impact investment, she is convinced that the next 20 years will see unprecedented scale up of the practice of impact investment, […]
January 28, 2013
Social impact investing will be the new venture capital
There may be billions worth of foundation assets, social organizations still cannot scale due to capital allocation inefficiencies. This post talks about how innovation in linking social performances to financial returns, and how governments of several countries like UK, US and Israel have woken up to the possibility of this […]
January 28, 2013
Socially responsible investing – a list
This post gives a list of adequate and suitable socially responsible investment websites, as listed by several sources. Read more here.
January 28, 2013
Japan tests social investment model for solar
A new and innovative model for the scale of use of solar electricity is being practiced in in Japan, wherein profits generated from solar electricity are being reinvested to support the local community. This model, being supported by the Ryukoku Solar Park aims to scale use of renewable energy while […]
January 28, 2013
Impact investing and private wealth management – convergence for HNIs’ financial and social goals
While impact investment in an asset class by itself which achieves a number of social goals, this post argues for the case of this asset class as being something that private wealth managers should take a closer look at. Read more here.
January 28, 2013
Impact investing as an asset class
According to Dr Rupert Evenett, while impact investment and socially responsible investing may be similar ideas, impact investment has more to it beyond socially responsible investing, which builds on investment in existing assets. This categorizes impact investment as an exclusive asset class. Read more here.
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Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
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