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T. Rowe Price launches listed equities impact fund
18 March 2021T. Rowe Price has launched an 'impact fund' to invest in listed companies that have a positive impact on the environment and social equity issues.
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Faber's Danone exit requires rethink of voting practices - Mirova's Zaouati
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IFC invests $20m in Brazilian impact fund
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Impact fund provides grants to support IIRC, SASB merger
12 March 2021The Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing has provided grants worth $500,000 to the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) - to help "unify the impact investing market behind a global standard", it said.
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UN adopts 'landmark' natural capital accounting framework
11 March 2021The UN has adopted a "landmark framework" to integrate natural capital in economic reporting, which it says could be used to underpin decision-making at the major international climate and biodiversity conferences later this year.
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Australian EV investor launches AUD100m fundraise
11 March 2021Impact investor TrueGreen plans to raise AUD100 million ($78 million) for its electric vehicle investment division, before publicly listing the division in the next financial year.
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How BMO's impact fund is navigating the EV and renewables 'bubble'
10 March 2021BMO's impact fund has avoided Tesla and identified "cheaper" alternatives that enable it to tap into long-term trends such as the rise of electric vehicles and sustainable nutrition, in the midst of what it says are valuation "bubbles".
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Temasek commits $500m to impact investor LeapFrog
09 March 2021Temasek has committed $500 million to impact investment manager LeapFrog, in what the Singapore state-backed investor said is the largest ever single commitment to an impact investor.
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SDG data launch helps 'next evolution of financial industry' towards impact - Truvalue Labs
09 March 2021Truvalue Labs says the launch of a free data service to analyse companies' contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will support what it says is the "next logical evolution of the financial industry" to make accounting for positive and negative impact a "mainstream" practice.
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Brambles, Danimer among positive biodiversity impact leaders - Federated Hermes
08 March 2021Australian supply chain logistics company Brambles and US biotechnology firm Danimer Scientific have been touted by Federated Hermes as top stocks for their positive impact on biodiversity.