The global logistics industry in 2012

IMD report shares innovative financial models using private and development capital to help resolve humanitarian crises and bridge the $42bn aid gap. Innovative financial instruments and approaches to provide aid to 360 million displaced people.

The idea of an EU bond, a common safe asset, has been gaining attention lately, particularly following calls for its introduction this month by former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi.

Family offices are uniquely positioned to drive positive change through impact investing by leveraging their wealth, influence, and values to create a legacy that transcends financial returns.

In addition to traditional venture capital (VC), governmental VC and social impact VC investors have emerged as alternatives to fund entrepreneurial ventures, especially start-ups that incorporate social and/or environmental objectives into commer...

The call by the former Italian prime minister and ECB president for massive investment in the EU is a wake-up call to Europe's economic stagnation. But can the continent afford the trade-offs it is overlooking?

In an effort to increase returns and control risk, pension funds are moving away from conventional equities and bonds into alternative investments like venture capital and private equity

We study the effects of carbon transition risk on equity prices in the United States and Europe using disclosed carbon intensity data and find a negative effect on the cross section of returns and a negative carbon premium for the period 2009–2019...

It is widely assumed that the selection process in a blockchain is based on proportional winning probabilities. The reliability and security of any blockchain is based upon this assumption. However, making an analogy between the Bitcoin protocol a...

Forecasting Bitcoin’s returns continues to be a challenging endeavor for both scholars and practitioners. In this paper, we train a random forest model on a variety of features, with the aim of predicting pronounced changes in the returns of Bitco...

This report provides a first mapping of the humanitarian impact finance continuum to identify different sources of funding for each respective actor (who does what, at what stage, and with what investment criteria) and thereby lower the barrier fo...