Field notes

Conversations with gender lens investing practitioners about their investment journeys, challenges, and reflections.

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Is Impact Investing Repeating The Mistakes Of Investing? The Solution Is A Creative One.

Investors often gravitate toward opportunities in technology, energy and financial services as the best way to deploy their $1 billion impact funds. The result, says Laura Callanan, is that impact investors are missing the large swath of the global economy where women, youth, indigenous peoples, and others can be found: the creative economy.

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