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Eric Pedersen on The Power of Active Ownership: Battling the Vung Ang 2 Threat
What should a responsible investor do when they see a company carrying out harmful activities? Eric Pedersen, Head of Nordea Asset Management’s Responsible Investments Team explains the company’s philosophy. Nordea Asset Management regularly ponders the “What should we do?” question.
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Ghana Investment Promotion Centre: Laws of Attraction – GIPC Draws Global Attention to the Investment Opportunities in Ghana
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre has over the years, adopted multi-tiered approaches to carry out its mandate, in promoting and attracting investments into Ghana. The Centre has initiated and supported dynamic measures to enhance the business climate for Ghanaian and
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Locked and Loaded in the Battle for Sustainability, Neuflize OBC Maintains Its Priority Values
Three-and-a-half centuries ago, France’s Banque Neuflize OBC was founded by entrepreneurs and philanthropists — and social responsibility has been a priority ever since. Neuflize OBC has been committed to a proactive CSR strategy for the past decade. Its teams strive
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John Gandolfo, IFC’s Treasurer: Looking Towards Recovery from Covid-19 and a Green, Resilient, Inclusive Future
The Covid-19 crisis has impacted the health and livelihoods of many millions of people across the planet, and it continues to impose an enormous toll on the poor, threatening decades of progress towards raising living standards in the developing world.
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KPMG Lower Gulf: Banking on ESG Risks in Future
ESG risks have the potential of negatively impacting banks’ assets, earning capacity, and sometimes their reputation, argues Abbas Basrai. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and the emerging risks associated with them are becoming increasingly relevant to organizations, especially banks.
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Zoscales Partners: Invest Where It matters
Impact is embedded in the DNA of Zoscales Partners. Since its founding in 2014, the private equity firm has not only delivered competitive financial returns but has generated measurable impact and contributed to sustainable economic growth and quality job creation
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Interview with Grete Faremo, Executive Director of UNOPS: Inclusive Infrastructure Development
In pre-pandemic Oct 2019 (about 20 months ago) you wrote an article for CFI.co magazine that highlighted the importance of infrastructure for communities, sustainable development and across the SDGs. If so, how have the world and your conclusions changed? While
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BBVA Asset Management: Going Global in the Battle to Bring Sustainability to the Wider World of Investment
Spanish bank BBVA is working on a global strategy which will affect all of its investment solutions. BBVA Asset Management embeds sustainability in the process. It has launched a sustainability plan that applies to all of its mutual and pension
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Inclusive Markets Are Not Born: How UNCDF is Supporting Inclusive Digital Economies
Inclusive Markets Are Not Born: How UNCDF is Supporting Inclusive Digital Economies by Advancing the Right Policies and Regulations If you were asked to describe in one word how digital has transformed finance, you wouldn’t be able to do it.
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OECD: Blended Finance Institutional Role in Responding to COVD-19
COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on developing countries and undone years of progress on sustainable development, pushing back into poverty large sections of the population. World Bank analysis projects growth in Sub-Saharan Africa to decline to -3.3% in 2020,
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