All Thematic and impact investing articles – Page 2
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Health
Access to health services and products is a basic human right as per the UN’s central mission.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Sustainable forestry
UN agencies and international conventions have created basic definitions and conditions for sustainable forestry, but these are not acknowledged or adopted by all countries.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Inclusive finance
According to the Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance (PIIF), about two billion adults – more than half of the world’s working population – are excluded from formal financial services.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Renewable energy
Non-conventional energy generation is one of the most well-known industries in the impact investing field, having evolved from an illiquid or early-stage impact market to a mainstream market in the past 15 years.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency is often associated with clean technology companies, green energy enterprises and smart or eco products (such as washing machines that consume less energy or hybrid cars).
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Education
The World Bank identifies education as a powerful driver of development and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, global peace and stability.
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Thought leadershipInitial considerations
While impact investing is a new paradigm for the investment community, there are still many gaps and issues that need to be addressed to take it to the mainstream.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Green buildings
Green building projects are well known to companies in this field, as well as by investors and policy makers.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture as a thematic investment is relatively new in the impact investing industry; but while few companies currently work or invest in this area, it is a growing market.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Affordable housing
Affordable housing is crucial for social development and social equality; around 1.6 billion people are housed inadequately, of which around one billion live in slums and informal settlements.
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Blog post
Is all investing impact investing?
Nathan Fabian, Director of Policy and Research, PRI kicked-off a discussion on the question: Is all investing impact investing, or is impact investing a special category that needs different reporting tools?
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Blog postExploration of the cross-sectional return distributions of socially responsible investment funds
The authors differentiate themselves from other work in the field by analysing how total and risk-adjusted returns are distributed, compared at various intervals away from the median (cross-sectional analysis).
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Technical guideThemed fixed income investing
Investment products such as green bonds are seen by many as a way of addressing ESG risks such as climate change and water scarcity.
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Technical guideUnderstanding the impact of your investments
How investors are measuring the impact of their E&S-themed investments
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Case studyInvesting in the sustainable economy
The investments highlighted in this report cover different social and environmental themes for example clean tech, microfinance and sustainable agriculture and forestry
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