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Building Trust Through Authenticity by Cameron Barsness KBBS

Building Trust Through Authenticity

November 22, 2022

Compared to just two years ago, our clients are far more aware of ESG as an investment approach. This includes awareness that ESG is, to some, a controversial topic. Part of our role as financial advisors is to dig into investment opportunities to ensure we understand them and how they match up with our clients’ goals for a more sustainable future – that includes a better planet and society over the next five, 10 and 20 years.

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Gender is Untapped Opportunity for Climate-smart Investors

Gender is an Untapped Opportunity for Climate-Smart Investors

November 22, 2022

(From the Archives) There is a growing recognition that addressing the climate crisis will require tapping into the knowledge, insights, and expertise of the whole population. If we want climate solutions that create a just transition for everyone affected, we need everyone involved – as innovators, entrepreneurs, workers, policymakers, customers, and investors.

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Just Good Investing - Our Gender Lens Investing Journey by Jenn Pryce

Just Good Investing: Our Gender Lens Investing Journey

November 22, 2022

Calvert Impact has invested in women since our founding nearly 30 years ago. As an investment firm dedicated to investing in solutions that people and planet need, we helped grow the microfinance and community development financial industries, both of which are important sources of capital for female entrepreneurs. Ten years ago, we began experimenting with a more formal approach to investing in women. (Dec. 2022)

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Cleantech Group Names the 2022 50 to Watch - Climate Crisis Innovators

Cleantech Group Names the 2022 Cleantech 50 to Watch – Climate Crisis Innovators

October 26, 2022

Cleantech Group recently released their Cleantech 50 to Watch, an annual list of top global early-stage private companies showcased for their excellence in sustainable innovation. The entrepreneurs on the list are creating new technologies that are poised to address the climate crisis in plastics, regenerating soils, recycling building materials, automating food waste and transforming solar power.

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Calvert Impact Capital announces new strategy and creation of Calvert Impact

Calvert Impact Capital announces new strategy & creation of Calvert Impact

October 26, 2022

Calvert Impact Capital, Inc. announced the formation of Calvert Impact, Inc. as its new holding company and as the overall brand to expand its impact investment activities. The changes will facilitate the launch of new impact investment products and service offerings that advance Calvert Impact\’s goal of better connecting the capital markets with organizations that positively affect communities and the planet.

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Impact Investing Market Reaches $1.1 Trillion Globally in Industry Milestone

Impact Investing Market Reaches $1.1 Trillion Globally in Industry Milestone

October 26, 2022

“The results of GIIN’s new market sizing study should fill us with optimism and determination. We should be optimistic about the capacity of the impact investing market to enact positive change, and we must be determined to continue to grow the use of impact investing as a critical strategy to address the challenges of our time” said GIIN Co-Founder and CEO Amit Bouri.

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Dave Ramsey, The Market, and Jesus

October 26, 2022

Jesus called out economic injustice. He turned over the tables in the temple, because of the way the financial system of the temple treated the poor. The poor would bring what they had, but it was not in the currency of the temple. So, they exchanged it with unscrupulous money changers to get the right currency. Jesus recognized this abuse and rejected it.

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Aligning Faith and Finances: A Personal Journey

October 26, 2022

On the theme of values-based investing, a speaker at a Christian MBA networking conference I attended explained the importance of having a framework to look at how a company treats all of its stakeholders, namely, its customers, employees, suppliers, host communities, the environment, and broader society. The bottom line was her assertion that what is right is also, in many cases, good for business and investors.

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Image courtesy of Getty Images. Its not a Nice Thing! by Mark Regier Praxis Mutual Funds

It’s Not a “Nice Thing”!

October 26, 2022

Community investing combines prudent management and economic sustainability of traditional investments with an understanding of the challenges faced by orgs seeking to bring opportunity and long-term financial viability to those on the margins of our society. Where charity seeks to do good work, community investing seeks to leverage charitable and community resources to expand that “good work” by multiples

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Faith-based Investing - Economics for the Greater Good by Duane Roberts Dana Investment Advisors

Faith-based Investing: Economics for the Greater Good

October 26, 2022

Faith-based investors have an opportunity, indeed an obligation, to exert influence on businesses to maximize the human welfare of shareholders, broader stakeholders, and society at large. Such investors may align investments with their belief system, like Quakers eschewing any business dealings with companies involved in the slave trade, or early Methodists avoiding investments in alcohol, tobacco, gambling or weapons.

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Building Trust Through Authenticity by Cameron Barsness KBBS

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