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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 […]
April 17, 2013
Defining impact investing: A call to action
Many definitions may provide an over-arching meaning to the phrase impact investing, but this post provides practical steps and measures that enable a firm to quantify their investment as impactful. The two measures suggested here include providing investors an ‘impact plan’, and providing an ‘impact statement’ annually to investors, stating […]
April 17, 2013
UK leading the way in impact investing
A new report released by the Saїd Business School, University of Oxford and the Cabinet Office, UK shows that UK leads the way in social investing in the world. UK’s policy infrastructure encourages social enterprise and investment has made an example for the world. Read more here.
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