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An investor’s journey: How CDC Group is innovating with catalytic capital
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 30 – How can investors innovate for impact without sacrificing rigor? As institutions from Prudential Financial to family office Ceniarth LLC will testify, there are some impact...
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The supply of catalytic capital is bigger than expected. Demand is even bigger
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 2 – The MacArthur Foundation turned up a bumper crop of proposals with its call last spring for funds and other investment intermediaries that demonstrate the value of “catalytic...
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Philanthropy can do more to catalyze private capital for public good
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 16 – We’re on the brink of a significant shift in the global flow of capital. We have the opportunity to redirect trillions of dollars as new wealth seeks to align investments with...
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Rockefeller’s $60 million impact fund manager leverages ‘catalytic capital’...
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 21, 2019 – On the hunt for innovations able to mobilize at least $1 billion to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, the Rockefeller Foundation in the last several years has spotted...
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Terra Silva has $90 million in ‘catalytic capital’ for carbon reduction in...
ImpactAlpha, October 23 – Forests are climate-negative technology at scale. So investments in tropical forests should be investment-ready, and fund managers able to tap the opportunity should be...
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Getting smart about subsidies to bridge the agricultural financing gap
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 30 – The latest data suggests that financial service providers are supplying about $70 billion to rural agricultural households around the world. That still leaves $170 billion (or...
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Digital and financial innovation is transforming small-farmer finance
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 11 – A wave of digital and financial innovation is changing perceptions around the profitability of lending to small farmers in emerging markets. “With greater breadth, depth and...
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Leveraged buyout funds help businesses convert to worker-ownership
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 13 – The widening wealth gap has sparked interest in worker ownership models that can build individual and community wealth. Across the U.S., about 6,000 companies have Employee Stock...
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These investors are mapping systems to catalyze structural change
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 14 – Say it louder for the people in the back: Impact investors can’t invest their way out of structural problems. More than 55 impact investors are putting a “whole-system” lens on...
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Catalytic capital: Reshaping risks and rewards to make markets work in 2020
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 19 – Attractive returns are in the eye of the beholder. For some investors, catalyzing capital for high-impact ventures – or better yet, whole new markets – is a bona fide home run....
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