Blended finance: how investors can do good without taking too big a riskÂ
Blended finance has the power to unleash the capital needed to drive progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals. ...
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3 July 2024 • by Richard Baldwin, Salvatore Cantale in Finance • 7 min read
The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will impose comprehensive and standardized sustainability reporting responsibilities on firms, adding unprecedented complexity to mergers and acquisitions. ...
Continue reading17 January 2024 • by Maximilian Martin in Finance • 10 min read
Blended finance has the power to unleash the capital needed to drive progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals. ...
12 January 2024 • by Salvatore Cantale, Marc Woodfield  in Finance • 8 min read
Companies figuring out how to respond to the shock of higher borrowing costs must beware of three common misconceptions....
11 January 2024 • by Kristin Hull in Finance • 8 min read
Activist investors have the power to direct the corporate world to embrace positive change. Kristin Hull offers a four-step guide to effective engagement....
19 December 2023 • by Michael Skapinker in Finance • 7 min read
Impact investor Lisa Barclay explains how Nesta is building a virtuous circle of investment in UK startups....
8 December 2023 in Finance • 6 min read • Podcast available
Climate finance is the hottest topic on the table when it comes to doing something tangible about climate change. We urgently need to propagate the “hows” around investing in positive values....
27 November 2023 • by Michael Skapinker in Finance • 9 min read
The Church of England has moved away from engagement and sold its fossil fuel shares, but to whose benefit? The shares have most likely been bought by investors who care little about...
15 November 2023 • by Camilla Erencin, Simon J. Evenett, Alexander Gruber, Felix Reitz in Finance • 5 min read
Traditional accounting measures often obscure the underlying health of firms and capitalist economies by ignoring the opportunity cost of capital and the potential value from R&D investment. Here we explain why these...
14 November 2023 • by Arturo Bris in Finance • 4 min read
With Bitcoin at a 17-month high and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried convicted of fraud, Professor Arturo Bris reckons that the outlook for digital currencies has never been rosier....
8 November 2023 • by Camilla Erencin, Simon J. Evenett, Alexander Gruber, Felix Reitz in Finance • 6 min read
With society facing a number of critical challenges, such as the transition to a low-carbon economy, digital disruption, and aging populations, demands are growing on businesses to divert some of their economic...
11 October 2023 • by Michael Yaziji in Finance • 5 min read
Companies have a tightrope to walk in balancing the competing interests of a broad set of critical stakeholders. This three-step framework can crystallize the delicate trade-offs -- leading to better, more informed...
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