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TD Ameritrade Launches Socially Aware Portfolios, Expanding Access to ESG Investing

 Sep 2018

OMAHA, Neb., September 6, 2018 - TD Ameritrade Investment Management, LLC (“TD Ameritrade”)1 today announced Socially Aware options for robo-advisor clients, helping investors to align their portfolios with their values by considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when they invest.

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Progress Urged As Bangkok Climate Talks Open To Prepare Paris Agreement Implementation

 Sep 2018

Bangkok, 3 September 2018 - Against the backdrop of severe and record heatwaves, bushfires, droughts and floods across the world, governments are convening a supplementary meeting in Bangkok to prepare the implementation guidelines of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The guidelines are needed to make the ...

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DWS Launches First ESG Money Market Fund in the U.S.

 Sep 2018
  • Fund’s launch continues DWS’s commitment to responsible investing
  • DWS’s proprietary ESG Engine provides data for fund’s company selection

NEW YORK, September 6, 2018 - DWS Group today announced the launch of DWS ESG Liquidity Fund (ESGXX), the first money market fund available ...

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ABN AMRO Digital Impact Fund invests in CrossLend digital lending platform

 Sep 2018

September 6, 2018 - ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund (DIF) is teaming up with Earlybird and solarisBank to invest EUR 14 million in Germany’s CrossLend. The fund has also agreed a strategic partnership with this digital cross-border lending marketplace. The partnership should help improve ...

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Launch of first online and free climate scenario-based analysis tool

The PRI, together with California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, is pleased to support the launch of a free-to-use, online tool – developed by the 2⁰ Investing Initiative – for assessing climate transition risk in investor portfolios.

 Sep 2018

September 3, 2018 - This tool, the Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment or PACTA tool, analyses exposure to transition risk in equity and fixed income portfolios over multiple scenarios, thereby helping to reduce information barriers on how climate scenario analysis can be done.

Most significantly, the ...

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Cargotec joins the global Rainmaking maritime startup accelerator programme

 Sep 2018

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018 - Cargotec joins the global Rainmaking maritime startup accelerator programme

Cargotec joins the Trade & Transport Impact programme that connects world leading startups and corporations to address the biggest challenges in maritime, cargo transport and logistics. This is the first programme of its ...

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Harvard Business School Announces 2018 Goldsmith Fellows

Fellowship program supports first-year MBA students with experience and a career interest in social enterprise

 Sep 2018

BOSTON, September 4, 2018 — Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2018 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1998 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former director of the Foundation and a limited partner at ...

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Could the future of food in the world depend on what Africa does with agriculture?

With over 800 million people worldwide suffering from hunger and more than two billion affected by malnutrition, food insecurity remains a real threat to global development

 Sep 2018

ROMA, Italy, September 2, 2018 -- Addressing a standing room only crowd of global agriculture experts at the FAO headquarters in Rome, 2017 World Food Prize Laureate and President of the African Development Bank (AfDB.org), Akinwumi Adesina, says the answer is a resounding yes! He ...

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$58m for environmental, economic and social research

$58m for research supporting environmental, economic, social outcomes

 Sep 2018

New Zealand, September 3, 2018 - Research, Science and Innovation Minister Megan Woods today released the revised 2019-2021 Endeavour Fund Investment Plan, with new investment signals to support the Government’s aim of transitioning to a more sustainable economy.

The Endeavour Fund supports over $200m of ...

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