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Impact investing: Promoting a universal standard

The appetite for impact investing is growing. But in the past, the financial industry has lacked common standards for monitoring and measuring impact investments. This has affected the ability to identify good investment practices, avoid ‘green washing,’ and enable comparability across projects. Neil Gregory, chief thought leadership officer at the International Finance Corporation, the private

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Andrew Adonis on the UK election and Brexit: ‘Watch the policy, not the rhetoric’

Andrew Adonis, Labour peer in the House of Lords and cabinet minister between 2005-10 under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, speaks to OMFIF Chairman David Marsh following Labour’s defeat in the UK election on 12 December. David Marsh: Are you secretly deep down quite pleased that Mr Corbyn has suffered this disaster, even

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Fed Talk: Rates remain on hold

In its December decision, the Federal Open Market Committee kept interest rates on hold. This was a widely expected move after three rate cuts earlier this year. Beyond the rate decision, people were most interested in the tone of the statement issued and whether the outlook for 2020 will be dovish, hawkish or neutral. Daniel

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Synopsis: A critical Federal Reserve quandary, the future of Chinese growth, and the ECB under Christine Lagarde

In this episode of Synopsis, OMFIF’s weekly roundup of news and analysis, Senior Editor Julian Frazer looks back over the most recent articles published on the OMFIF website, including those on a critical policy-making quandary at the Federal Reserve, the future of Chinese growth, and what to expect from the European Central Bank under President

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Ahead of the ECB: Forecasting Lagarde’s direction

Frederik Ducrozet, strategist at Pictet Wealth Management, joins Danae Kyriakopoulou, chief economist and director of research at OMFIF, to discuss what to expect from the European Central Bank’s next monetary policy meeting and Lagarde’s direction for the ECB. They cover stylistic changes in communication with the public and markets, internal changes to decision making, as

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Synopsis: European green policy, cutting the ECB inflation target, and signs pointing to a global recession

In this episode of Synopsis, OMFIF’s weekly roundup of news and analysis, Senior Editor Julian Frazer looks back over the most recent articles published on the OMFIF website, including those on the possibility of a green policy realignment in Europe after the UK general election, why the European Central Bank should not cut its inflation

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Synopsis: Federal Reserve communications, UK party manifestos, Trump’s troubled relationship with the dollar

In this episode of Synopsis, OMFIF’s weekly roundup of news and analysis, Senior Editor Julian Frazer looks back over the most recent articles published on the OMFIF website, including those on the virtues and shortcomings of the Federal Reserve’s financial stability reports, the manifestos presented by Britain’s biggest political parties in the run up to

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Kenneth Clarke on the UK general election: ‘Jerermy Corbyn hasn’t a snowball’s chance in Hades of ever being prime minister.’

Kenneth Clarke, a Conservative member of parliament for 49 years and the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer between 1993-97, speaks with OMFIF Chairman David Marsh in the run-up to the 12 December general election. They discuss the surreal circumstances that have changed the face of British politics since the Brexit referendum in June 2016, Jeremy

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Synopsis: India hands reins to China, Boris Johnson on the campaign trail, and the future of the euro area

In this episode of Synopsis, OMFIF’s weekly roundup of news and analysis, Senior Editor Julian Frazer looks back over the most recent articles published on the OMFIF website, including those on India’s rejection of the RCEP, Boris Johnson on the UK campaign trail, and quelling German excess saving. To receive our newsletters,visit https://thinktank.omfif.org/subscribe. Articles and other

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