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Investing
Responsible Investing

MicroRate ... A guide to responsible investing

This White Paper by MicroRate illustrates many of the issues that are constraining the development of a capital market that addresses the major important issues of our times. Open PDF ... MicroRate ... A guide to responsible investing The paper embraces the idea that there should be financial and non-financial returns ... returns that are societal or social. The paper identifies social (people) and environmental (planet) as the non-financial elements. The paper associates financial investing with 'do not measure', socially responsible investing with 'do no harm' and impact investing with 'do good'. Later the paper identifies seven different types of responsiblible investing:

  1. Blemded value investing
  2. Ethical investing
  3. Green investing
  4. Mission related investing
  5. Socially concscious invsting
  6. Sustainable investing
  7. Values based investing
According to this paper there is some $71 trillion of assets under management. Of this $13.5 trillion are directed towards socially responsible investing and just $89 billion to impact investing. The microfinance sector is the largest part of the impact investing segment.

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