Amid the pandemic-inflicted downturn, the real value of firms is under the spotlight. Adrian de Groot Ruiz, executive director of Impact Institute, explains…
Saturday, 15 August 2020
Wealth & Society : Impact Investing
Tao Zhang, co-founder of Dao Ventures and founder of one of the first impact funds in China, discusses his latest clean food impact investment in Shenzhen…
Despite net fund flows into sustainable funds in Europe nearly five times higher than in the US, the trend towards sustainable assets are in line in both…
As the bank positions itself at the forefront of sustainable investing with a new $75 billion pledge, Rahul Sheth, Standard Chartered executive director…
The center of debate has shifted from whether impact investing can match the returns of traditional investing, to whether asset owners are willing and…
Hong Kong-based fintech MioTech is using algorithm-driven AI and machine learning to find and provide structure to ESG data in China.
An academic at heart, John Milligan-Whyte’s passion is finding problems and solving them in market-led sustainable ways no matter where they are or how…
Jakarta, 22 August 2019 Wealth and Society hosted a roundtable dialogue on “Property Development in Indonesia: Building a Sustainable City” which heard…
TBLI Group is aiming to maximise investment flows into sustainable initiatives. In an interview with Wealth and Society, its chairman, Robert Rubinstein,…
Chairman and founder of TBLI Group, Robert Rubinstein, breaks down the misconceptions over impact investing and ESG integration and shares his expertise…
Long before the advent of impact investing, Urmatt, the largest producer of organic Jasmine rice in the world, exemplifies how a business can combine profit…
Impact investment funds are set up to make a positive environmental, social or governance impact while returning a profit for investors. Before investing…
Leapfrog breaks impact investment record with its LeapFrog Emerging Consumer Fund III, raising $700 million, surpassing it target of $600 million and building…
The Wealth and Society West Africa 2019 Roundtable Dialogue consisting of leading impact investment institutions discussed a range of solutions to the…
West Africa Wealth and Society 2019 SME Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner, PiggyVest Co-Founder Eweniyi discusses how her online savings platform can…
Through discipline and a flexible system, PiggyVest encourages users to make automated savings by transferring their money from their debit card to their…
Rodney Schwartz, challenges the notion that impact investing funds are less profitable than traditional investment funds, and proves that there is much…
Managing Director Robert Kraybill discusses how IIX uses financial markets to directly and proactively benefit society.