Tenke Z

Advising private clients and global institutions on investing impactfully and profitably #impactinvest #ESG

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Impact funds offer less market risk exposure than VC or matched funds, making them a unique selling point for greater diversification. They outperform VC funds and perform as well as matched funds in a value-weighted long-short portfolio that accounts for market risk.

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@swordhealth Congratulations on this groundbreaking work, a pleasure to support Sword Health through it's growth and impact creation

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A decade of work comes to life today. Meet Phoenix!

As the world’s first AI Care Specialist, Phoenix works alongside human clinicians to make world-class care available anytime, anywhere.

Globally, billions of people lack access to high-quality care. That’s why we reinvented the way care is delivered. Now, with Phoenix, the full potential of the AI Care revolution is clear.

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Read my piece in @ImpactInvestor on impact and ROI https://t.co/jHsILXwjiy

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Pleased to be supporting the RiverRock European Capital Partners LLP team on this infrastructure investment https://t.co/epaonbbYrD

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Speaking next week in Brussels on thematic debt at the ‘Financing digitalisation for inclusive and green growth: Delivering on Global Gateway and the SDGs’ forum with the support of SIDA and the European Commission

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Working with UNDP to strengthen the international financial architecture:
Even for countries that are not at immediate risk of debt distress, high borrowing costs in capital markets can sharply curtail countries’ ability to invest in recovery and sustaina…https://t.co/KvAv8CETQb

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Big congrats to the NMB Bank Plc Team and a fabulous collaboration with Dr Khetsiwe Dlamini and FSD Africa on delivering impact in Tanzania for women through a bond issuance. https://t.co/b74iUUVhkx

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Proud to announce the issuance of Indonesia's inaugural blue bond! UNDP https://t.co/faYsLRzHGO

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Biodiversity has robustly documented correlations with credit risks. In the context of sovereign bonds, it is estimated that many countries including the USA and Canada could be facing credit downgrades due to biodiversity loss. Re…https://t.co/nIrltaRQUC https://t.co/Uw6QhTH6pd

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Lisa Willems and I developed a landscape review on the market need, and looming urgency, for the indebted nations and investors to have access to a suite of financing tools and services linked to issuing and/or restructuring debt t…https://t.co/E7vAuzMF6w https://t.co/sZXx74kq4G

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The Companies That Prioritized Their Stakeholders Outperformed Their Peers in the Fourth Quarter https://t.co/jgOhkMnapF

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Companies that succeed in prioritizing their workers, customers, communities, shareholders, and the environment also enjoy the advantage of better credit ratings and lower borrowing costs https://t.co/P77HsEYZCm

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BlackRock and its mixed messages of stewardship and climate action as it looked to divest from coal at $76 but not today at $380 a tonne...and mixed messages on governance #esginvesting https://t.co/KW5kFD4bjk

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@UBS leads the net green/fossil bond syndication league tables, ranking the relative tilt of individual counterparties’ commercial banking activities. #fossilfuels https://t.co/RlcFdXDomC

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First Sustainability-Linked Bond (SLB) that has triggered a sustainability related financial penalty for the issuer: PKN Orlen, a Polish oil refiner and petrol retailer, has issued two SLBs with coupons dependent on the issuer’s MS…https://t.co/YcqgF7Sinl https://t.co/EdZzw0nQF7

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“Employers must move quickly to upskill their workforce through learning initiatives focused on sustainability knowledge and skills,” https://t.co/BOVIhnwGxo

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Al Gore and David Blood on why ESG investing is consistent with fiduciary duty’s https://t.co/kKPlss9Ies

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“I think critics of ESG are as wrong as a frog in a fire" JUST Capital
From January 2018 to the end of September 2022, the top 10% of JUST ranked companies have outperformed the bottom 10% by 43% in the market; that they also have lower beta, lower levera…https://t.co/OojBjrAP3a

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SLB caveat emptor: Nuveen, a TIAA company on why Sustainability-Linked Bonds do not fit their impact framework: https://t.co/tPhJ1kixHq