While conservative investors may consider passively investing in a large cap company and hoping for management to provide capital returns to be sound financial bet, a growing class of investors is waking up to the fact that that positive investment returns and constructive social and financial impact can go hand-in-hand. Impact Investing momentum + More
Unfunded Pension Liabilities: Could Less Risk Be More Risk?
In the fall of 2008, as the global financial crisis turned acute, fear ruled. Commercial paper vanished. LIBOR blew up. Markets crashed. Fortunately central banks came to liquidity’s rescue, helping recapitalize banking, rescuing too-big-to-fail companies and, for many nations, keeping people employed. Minerva Pension Investing Dilemma-English + More
Pasivos de fondos de pensiones: ¿menos riesgo sería más riesgo?
Published by Estrategia & Negocios En el otoño del 2008, con la intensificación de la crisis financiera global, el temor dominó. Los papeles comerciales se desvanecieron. La tasa LIBOR explotó. Los mercados se derrumbaron. Los bancos centrales vinieron al rescate con liquidez, ayudando a recapitalizar la industria bancaria, y rescatando a las compañías que eran + More
High-Powered Miami Women on the Move
Published by Ocean Drive At just 23, Jocelyn Cortez-Young helped launch Goldman Sachs’s offices in Brazil and Mexico, and her career juggernaut hasn’t stopped since. By age 26, she was a force on Wall Street, responsible for emerging markets at Credit Suisse. And just three years ago, she founded Minerva Capital Group, one of the + More
Impact Investing’s Momentum Today: A Positive Inflection Point?
Published by LAVCA A growing class of investors is waking up to the fact that that positive investment returns and constructive social and financial impact can go hand-in-hand. This philosophy is the basis of impact investing. Some private equity firms have taken this approach a step further by applying it within the rapidly growing and + More
OPINIÓN: El Impulso de la Inversión de Impacto
Published by El Financiero Cada vez crece más un grupo de inversionistas que consideran que tener resultados financieros positivos no se pelea con tener un impacto social favorable. Esta filosofía es la base de la inversión de impacto. Jocelyn Cortez-Young, CEO & Socia Fundadora, Minerva Capital Group Mientras que inversionistas tradicionales pueden considerar invertir de + More
El Impulso de la Inversión de Impacto: ¿Un Punto Positivo de Inflexión?
Published by Economia y Finanzas Mientras que inversionistas tradicionales pueden considerar invertir de manera pasiva en una compañía grande y esperar que los ejecutivos generen las ganancias necesarias para obtener un buen retorno; existe un creciente grupo de inversionistas que se están despertando al hecho de que resultados financieras positivos e impacto social pueden ir + More
Minerva Capital Group Announces US$6M Investment in Target Brazil
Featured on LAVCA January 10, 2012 – Minerva Opportunity Fund I, LP an ImpactBase Investment Fund focused on the agriculture and energy sectors in emerging markets announced today its 18.75% equity investment in Target Brazil, a Brazilian company that supplies bovine byproducts to Asian markets + More