It looks as if the colour of sustainable financial returns may well be green.
Public-private partnerships (P3), collaboration and co-investment in large-scale infrastructure programs drive remarkable results and financial returns.
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In the long run, there is no question that these advantages help generate better financial returns.
Ultimately, the effectiveness of an approach can be best measured by its financial returns.
Schools also see financial returns on "sustainable" investments, such as energy-efficient buildings and recycling efforts.
We need to harness the capital markets and create institutions that deliver both social and financial returns.
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Rather than hindering financial returns, social enterprise offers a huge competitive advantage in the unpredictable global economy.
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Most reported that results have been in line with expectations and they target market rate financial returns.
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How do we define return on investment beyond financial returns, in terms of social impact and corporate responsibility?
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Unlike traditional grant-makers or charitable givers, mission investors expect that the funds they invest will yield financial returns.
But today there are a range of philanthropic investment strategies available that simultaneously yield social and financial returns.
If this seems wildly counterintuitive a similar explanation of financial returns should help.
Companies are exploring what several years ago might have been deemed as unconventional means to generate incremental financial returns.
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"For Comcast, this transaction is strategically compelling and will generate attractive financial returns and build shareholder value, " continued Roberts.
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Although we could get financial returns from some of the social entrepreneurs in our portfolio, we have elected not to.
In the end, we know our investments are solid and that in time we will attain the financial returns we desire.
Even when financial returns do materialize, the operation is still currently dependent on a few exceptional individuals to carry it forward.
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Still, adoption lags behind what the often-attractive financial returns would indicate, indicating that consumer awareness about solar costs is woefully behind.
Its financial returns so far are weak, and it has seemed reluctant to aggressively try to produce cash from its patent assets.
Aschheim conceded that he and his team have focused more on the technical demands of the Carbon Meter project than financial returns.
The financial returns of VC funds over the last decade are weak.
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These could make for a gift like none other or, the company says, lead to walloping financial returns of up to 300 percent.
The 124-year-old manufacturer of film and cameras filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2012, following many consecutive years of negative financial returns.
In other words, while foreign investors may say they want to promote better lifestyles for women and families, they also expect positive financial returns.
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The innovation initiative at SWIFT is now in that awkward phase of innovation when money has been invested but financial returns have not yet materialized.
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The idea of social investing, as opposed to ordinary investing, is that the money raised is used to generate social as well as financial returns.
The billionaires are hoping that the real financial returns, which are decades away, will come from mining asteroids for platinum group metals and rare minerals.
The exceptional financial returns of the past 15 years are over.
Based on all the key factors--strengthening our competitiveness, protecting our strategic position, generating attractive financial returns--the Google agreement is far better than Microsoft's search-only hybrid proposal.
Impact investing refers to the intentional use of investment capital to create positive social and environmental outcomes along with financial returns by investing in for-profit social enterprises.
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