Sustainable ventures can markedly contribute to Canada’s economy and employment with the right investor strategies to help them grow to medium and large size.
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Sustainable start-ups are better off choosing an investor with aligned interests that can lend them legitimacy.
Women-focused capital financing is supposedly aimed at ending the corporate gender gap. But many equity investors, still largely high-net-worth men, still view women entrepreneurs as being deficient — and are practising what’s known as pinkwashing.
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Women-focused capital financing is supposedly aimed at ending the corporate gender gap. But many equity investors still view women entrepreneurs as being deficient and are practising pinkwashing.
Taking a whiff of the marijuana flower.
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A group of America’s most powerful CEOs said companies should no longer merely focus on maximizing shareholder wealth. A business professor explains why it’s not a big deal.
Even the pros don’t know what’s up.
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A growing number of investors, policymakers and others say the US economy may be at risk of spiraling downward. A finance professor explains how to ride it out.
Sarah Churchill was an adroit investor and savvy political operative.
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While the film introduces viewers to women who were important political figures in British history, it doesn’t quite capture just how much power and influence these women actually wielded.
John C. Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group, died in January.
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As the expected costs of climate change grow, cities are on the frontlines of adapting to sea level rise and more intense storms – and finding ways to pay for it.
Arturo Bris, International Institute for Management Development (IMD) e Michael Wade, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Spotify chose an unconventional route for its listing on the New York Stock Exchange. But its gutsy move will be a worry for the banks and doesn’t guarantee a net benefit for the company.
Masculine words and metaphors are frequently used in financial language.
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The stock market is littered with metaphors made by and for men, so it’s no wonder women don’t feel as comfortable in investing.
The new way of getting investors involved through crowdfunding will be treated just like any normal share issue — without any special tax offsets, write-offs or capital gains tax relief at all.
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New crowd-sourced funding legislation for startups is meant to provide incentives for investors - but it doesn’t quite achieve that goal.
The coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the top carbon dioxide emitters in the United States, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga.
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In the age of climate change, investors have different ideas about financial risk. Green bonds take social, environmental and governance issues into consideration, and could help fight climate change.
Instead, we need to burn the entire system of financial regulation to the ground and replace it with something that supports investing the way it’s done today.
APRA and its chairman Wayne Bryes may be more prescriptive on lending rules in an attempt to curb rising house prices.
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The government’s unwillingness to consider changing the tax system to fix housing affordability, makes it more likely that APRA may have to become even more prescriptive with its lending criteria.
Impact investing emerged in 2007 out of global discussions on how to mobilise more capital to tackle societal problems.
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Young women are are confident in implementing budgeting and savings strategies, but lack the knowledge and confidence required to implement long-term financial strategies, a new pilot study finds.