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NewsNBIM tackles child nutrition, continuing UNICEF collaboration
Initiative brings food retail firms together to improve business practices related to child nutrition
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Special ReportSpecial Report – Impact investing 2021
In this special report, we take a close look at how COVID-19 has impacted progress regarding SDGs and other key topics in impact investing including blended finance, impact bonds, social enterprises and ocean finance
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Ocean finance: The $24trn ‘blue’ economy
Ocean-focused investment funds are piquing investor interest as awareness of the importance of maritime ecology increases
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SDG reporting: Beyond SDG-washing
Only thorough processes and due diligence can make sense of the welter of claims and frameworks by companies using the SDGs as a reporting tool
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Special ReportMaking more of blended finance
Net-zero asset owners are trying to encourage larger asset managers to develop blended finance solutions at scale
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Blended finance: Institutional opportunity?
Unlocking institutional capital for blended finance will require a thorough understanding of the long-term requirements of investors
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Special ReportImpact bonds: Clipping the impact coupon
High risk, costs and complexity have hindered the development of impact bonds. Could this be about to change?
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Book ReviewBook review: Shooting for the moon
Mariana Mazzucato calls on us to reformulate capitalism itself, and to return to the ‘Big Government’ rejected by the baby-boomer generation
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Opinion PiecesOECD: plans to mobilise institutional capital
The OECD is committed to facilitating development finance through structures that provide a commercial return
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Special ReportThe scaling up challenge
With ample diagnosis that the world is not on track to realise the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals by their target of 2030, and a significant setback in the coronavirus pandemic, what can institutional investors and asset managers do to scale up impact-related capital?
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Special ReportCOVID’s legacy: making an impact towards a just transition
An initial narrow focus by investors on the social consequences of the pandemic has shifted to a more holistic perspective and a recognition that it affects all of the SDGs
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Special ReportSocial enterprises: Social return guaranteed
The European Social Innovation and Impact Fund is a pioneer in social enterprise finance
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Special ReportInterview: Pavan Sukhdev
Pavan Sukhdev, CEO of GIST Advisory, describes his firm as being at the “intersection” of technology and sustainability.
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Investment consultants endorse impact investing principles for pensions
Principles were developed by the Impact Investing Institute in partnership with Pensions for Purpose
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Allianz Global Investors: looking at social impact investing post COVID
‘Exclusion is an issue that has evolved over time. It continues to be raised bringing challenges for investors’
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French groups agree ‘demanding’ definition for impact investing
FIR and France Invest publish report about conclusions reached by working group of investment professionals
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PBU cornerstone investor in new southeast Asia women’s fund
Danish pension fund CEO says women ‘foundation of the family’ in developing countries
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IPE Conference Day 2: ESG asset allocation, responsible investing, corporate purpose
Timothée Jaulin (Amundi), Matthew Edwards (Willis Towers Watson), Alex Edmans (London Business School), and Fiona Stewart (World Bank) among other speakers
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NewsNBIM says PRI’s strategy shift so drastic it needs signatory vote
Norwegian SWF criticises plan’s presentation as “lacking in context”
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ATP helps squeeze global emissions with new ESG filter for utilities
Danish pension fund’s new model for sector ensures no investment in new coal power
