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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Emerging Market Share Sales Beat Developed Nations for 1st Time
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) — Emerging markets are attracting more money from share offerings than industrialized nations this quarter for the first time in at least a decade as companies from Brazil to China complete record sales. Companies from Petroleo Brasileiro … Continue reading
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Emerging-Market Debt Funds Gain Allure
By David Bogoslaw Given the ultra-low-interest-rate environment for many of the world’s developed economies, it’s no surprise that yield-hungry investors are increasingly flocking to the government debt of emerging countries. More sophisticated investors are no longer betting only on the … Continue reading
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IT and Micro-Finance Can Push Back Poverty
Nobel Peace Prize laureate professor Muhammad Yunus aims to build on his pioneering work combining micro-credit and information technology in a project outlined in an address at yesterday’s Telecom World opening ceremony. The “ICT Empowerment Network” will be a joint … Continue reading
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Social Investing Gathers Momentum Niche no more: Socially responsible funds are putting up impressive performance numbers—and their reach is spreading
This story has been corrected to show in the 13th paragraph that the Social Choice Account has a 60/40 equity/fixed income split and exposure to international stocks instead of the Social Choice Equity Fund in the 14th paragraph. The former … Continue reading
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Intuit Looks To Emerging Markets For Growth
By Francesca Freeman, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Intuit Inc. (INTU) is looking to expand its presence in the fast-growing markets in India and Southeast Asia, emerging markets where demand for its personal and small-business finance software … Continue reading
Banks encouraged to target small businesses
HCM CITY— Thirty-five bankers and trainers from 15 institutions in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam yesterday participated in a training programme on building sustainable small and medium-sized banking operations in HCM City. The three-day event was organised by the International … Continue reading
Microfinance deployed in developed world too
Microfinance, widely acknowledged as an innovative tool to supply entrepreneurs of the developing world with access to credit, is now breaking new ground in the developed world too – in New York City. Grameen America, a microfinance organisation headquartered in … Continue reading
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What Is the Local Investor Potential for Impact Investing?
In a few weeks, illustrious movie supervillain Gordon Gekko will make his somewhat less than triumphant return to Wall Street. He will likely return humbled, then reveal his true self (ie. Greed is good) before changing his ways or getting … Continue reading
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SKS Microfinance IPO: Profiting from the poor?
SKS Microfinance, India’s largest and fast-growing microfinance company, raised 16.29 billion rupees (USD358 million) in August in the country’s first ever initial public offering by a microfinance institution and in the world’s second such offering. In 2007, Mexican microlender Banco … Continue reading
Social Impact Exchange Receives $1.8 Million From Robert Wood Johnson, Rockefeller Foundations
The Social Impact Exchange, a cross-sector initiative designed to support the growth of high-impact social programs, has announced grants totaling $1.8 million from the Robert Wood Johnson and Rockefeller foundations to support the next phase of the project. The grants … Continue reading
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Tagged Rockafeller Foundation, Social Impact Investing
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