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		<title>Money For Good: $120 Billion Impact Investing Market Opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hope Neighbor On Friday, I talked about principles to guide efforts to improve the quality of charitable giving. Today, I’ll talk about another opportunity to achieve social impact – by addressing the $120 billion market opportunity for impact investments for individuals. Today, these dollars are “hiding in plain sight,” in individuals’ investment accounts. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impact Investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Impact Investing . Capitalism is tackling the world&#8217;s biggest social and environmental problems-and giving investors a new way to do well by doing good. . By Ron Cordes May 1, 2010 . Pretend it&#8217;s 2007 again, and you must choose between two investment opportunities. One is a pool of U.S.-based mortgage-backed securities packaged by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing into Microfinance Investment Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investing into Microfinance Investment Funds . This paper aims to measure the performance of microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) in terms of risk and returns to investors. The study included 11 MIVs (in the form of mutual funds) and their sub-funds that publish data monthly. The authors describe the funds as “commercial MIVs that focus mainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rich get richer, the poor get richer, the New York Times gets outraged</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great article below in response to the NYT article from last week. One thing not mentioned is that not-for-profit MFIs charge similar, if not higher, rates of interest as do for-profits. Thus, the &#8220;complaints&#8221; lobbied against the for-profits should be brought against the not-for-profits, if not more so. However, all players are significantly better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Tell Good MFIs from Bad MFIs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Fisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent article below which enumerates the difficulty of using an interest rate only to determine &#8220;good&#8221; vs &#8220;bad&#8221;. This article also illustrates well the value of the for-profit model, driving higher financial and social returns. This seems like a contradiction in terms, but the empirical evidence begs the question of superior social impact for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Girl Effect &amp; The Nike Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Girl Effect: The powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society. . WHY GIRLS? . Because when adolescent girls in the developing world have a chance, they can be the most powerful force of change for themselves, their families, communities and nations. . But while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance Shows Strong Equity Valuations Despite Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microfinance Shows Strong Equity Valuations Despite Crisis . WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; Sustained demand for microfinance equity, in the face of the worst financial crisis in decades, continued to propel valuations in this sector higher throughout 2009 and the medium-term outlook remains positive, according to a new report by CGAP, a microfinance group based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problems of Correlation in Financial Risk Management &#8211; the Contribution of Microfinance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this paper, the authors, Karel Janda and Barbora Svárovská, first introduce microfinance institutions as an alternative investment instrument. They argue (convincingly) that beside socially responsible features of microfinance, there exists also significant portfolio enhancement opportunity in microfinance investments. Then they provide an overview of possible ways how to evaluate the correlation between microfinance related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparking a Savings Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sparking a Savings Revolution . By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: December 30, 2009 . There’s an old saying about poverty: Give me a fish, and I’ll eat for a day. Give me a fishing rod, and I’ll eat for a lifetime. . There are many variations in that theme. In Somalia, I heard a darker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ProCredit Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Fisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We read this recently from ProCredit&#8217;s website and agree with their sentiments and approach. We do not want to minimize nor exaggerate the social impact of microfinance, but want to use it for what it can do best calling upon other approaches and parties to bring their efforts to bear toward poverty alleviation. . Microfinance [...]]]></description>
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