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The Global Future Council on Financial and Monetary Systems published this report singling out three key aspects of the risks and challenges associated with the two seemingly opposed forces of decentralization and integration, to which the international financial architecture will need to adapt: 1) regulatory ...

This report documented a widespread demand for knowledge about impact

investing. Women and men are equally likely to impact invest, but impact investors tend to be younger, more educated, and have higher incomes; gender differences appear with deeper examination into these sub-groups. People who replace ...

The World Bank has released the 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals. With over 180 maps and charts, the new publication shows the progress societies are making towards the 17 SDGs.

The Atlas draws on World Development Indicators, a database of over 1,400 indicators ...

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, has released its 2017 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report detailing the company’s environmental, social, and governance initiatives worldwide.

In addition ...

Big Issue Invest launched its Social Impact Report 2018, revealing that £10.7 million were invested across 81 investments into 68 mission-led organisations from 2017-18. Big Issue Invest (BII) has a total current investment portfolio of £26.4 million into 198 investments into 150 organisations ...

In Pursuit of Deep Impact and Market-Rate Returns: KL Felicitas Foundations Journey is a deep-dive analysis of the KLF impact investment portfolio, which provides a model strategy for achieving targeted social and environmental as well as financial returns. The report, released in April 2018, by ...

This research report is the result of a partnership between the World Bank Group (WBG) and Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) of Japan, initiated by the World Bank Group's President, Jim Yong Kim, and GPIF's Chief Investment Officer, Hiro Mizuno. The aim is ...

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Symbiotics present the first comprehensive analysis of the financial performance of private debt impact investment funds.

The report analyzes the aggregate performance of 50 and over 100 Community Development Loan Funds (CDLFs). Return figures for both PDIFs and ...

ClearBridge has been engaging with public companies to push for improvement on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues for more than three decades. In their newly published impact report, “Making an Impact Through Active Equity Ownership,” they discuss the evolution of ESG investing at the ...