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A call to action for better research on indoor air pollution

This note by Donn Tice, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at d.light, talks about the need for concrete and more comprehensive research when it comes to indoor air pollution, an issue that mortally affects the lives of 3.5 million people worldwide. Read more here.

April 17, 2013

India: Regulator SEBI registers new fund under AIF

Social investment is now becoming a mainstream concept as the Securities and Exchange Board of India, or SEBI approved the Incube Connect Fund, one of the pioneering social venture fund as an AIF, or an Alternative Investment Fund. Read more here.

April 17, 2013

Canada: Bullion Management Group joins Canada’s social investment organization

SIO, or Social Investment Organization, the national association for the socially responsible investment (SRI) in Canada, now has a new member – Bullion Management Group. BMG is a metal company, and first of its kind to join the SIO. Read more here.

April 17, 2013

Morgan Stanley’s impact investing platform takes shape

Morgan Stanley had announced its plans to launch an impact investing platform – ‘Investing with Impact’, which should make it easier for investors to combine financial returns, personal objectives, and social and environmental impact while investing. This platform is now more developed than it was, given that since its launch […]

April 17, 2013

PwC notes new trends in sustainable investing

Research by the firm PwC reveals aggressive measures by firms all over in measuring impact that they make. Firms in US, according to PwC, are in a ‘pre-regulatory environment’, yet companies are adhering to quantifying the impact they make. Read more here.

April 17, 2013

What is next for impact investing

This post is first in an ongoing series which aims to establish the new measures fund managers and other impact investment practitioners are going to implement to reduce churn and adopt an aggressive growth strategy combining maximum of both social and financial impact. Read more here.

April 17, 2013

What microfinance can teach impact investing

Impact investment, which has been taken to mean social capital in this post, has microfinance form its largest share. While impact investment may be at a higher level of implementation, microfinance can teach a few lessons about social capital to this field nevertheless. Read more here.

April 17, 2013

US: Domestic opportunities for impact investing sector

This post talks about the focus of most institutional investors looking to make impact investments, in social investments in developing countries. It is estimated that by 2014, US$500 billion of impact investments will be used to address challenges overseas in the developing world. This post, instead, argues for the case […]

April 17, 2013

Can socially responsible techniques be applied to financial firms

While financial firms deal in only data and money, socially responsible investments, socially responsible investing broadens the outlook to the impact the company may have on the planet and the people associated with it. Marrying these principles to achieve the best of the two may be very hard to implement […]