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The Brief: Latin American leadership, sustainable agriculture and aquaculture, investing in refugee solutions, Zebra cooperative
Featured: Latin America’s impact investors lead the way at the FLII
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Germany’s KfW commits an additional $16.6 million to LatAm-focused eco.business Fund
The German development bank's additional commitment into eco.business Fund, a conservation fund it helped launch six years ago, will expand investments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Investing to integrate the growing wave of displaced people in Latin America
“We think impact investors are possibly the best-placed actors to solve the refugee problem,” says the Refugee Investment Network’s Christine Mahoney.
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Wells Fargo’s move to block shareholder vote undermines ‘stakeholder’ commitments
One of the first acts of new Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf when he joined the bank last October was to sign onto the new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation promoted by the Business Roundtable. A few months earlier, more than 180 CEOs had declared a new era in which they would pay
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Foundations are diversifying who manages their billion-dollar endowments
A new study from the Knight Foundation found that firms led by women and people of color now manage an estimated $8.62 billion, or 13.5%, of the $63.95 billion in assets held by 26 of the nation’s 50 top foundations.
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Solactive takes stake in startup calculating companies’ climate footprint
German index provider Solactive invested in Frankfurt-based "right. based on science" for its model that analyzes companies’ and portfolios' climate contribution and risk exposure.
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