The News Review:
- Momentum targets region’s investment culture
- Clinton says farm investment top US priority
- Green Investing Is Paying ff
Momentum targets region’s investment culture
MLive.com
While pursuing potential business opportunities and helping young entrepreneurs get their footing is the primary focus the backers of the venture firm Momentum say their broader long-term goal is to drive a change in culture. Rick DeVos and his partners aim to build business cases for successfully investing in small startup companies they can use to convince other investors in the region to embrace agile nontraditional startup companies that “are not making widgets” but are often tech- or Web-based. “It’s to teach through example” DeVos said. As Michigan goes through a painful economic transition DeVos and his partners echo sentiments that a new age of entrepreneurism is crucial to creating a brighter economic future. But doing so requires a change in the risk tolerance of investors they say. “We just need to embrace a different mindset of how we’re investing in things and accept the failure that accompanies the risk that’s necessary to have vibrant new businesses” said DeVos Momentum’s founder and president and CE of Grand Rapids-based Spout.
Clinton says farm investment top US priority
AFP
In Nairobi at the start of an African tour Clinton toured a farm institute where she heard of efforts to increase crop yields improve the role of women and develop seeds that can withstand the continent’s droughts. Clinton highlighted a 20 billion-dollar plan spearheaded last month by President Barack bama under which the United States and 30 other countries will help small farmers grow more food. “We are convinced that investing in agriculture is one of the most high-impact cost-effective strategies available for reducing poverty and saving and improving lives” Clinton said at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute. “That’s why we have made this a signature element of our nation’s foreign policy” Clinton said standing amid tall stocks of maize which security guards peered through. Deploring that some one billion people around the world suffer from hunger Clinton said rich nations for too long have shipped emergency food rather than helping poor nations improve their crop yields. Likewise Clinton said that developing nations should see farming as a modern tech-savvy profession not a way of the past. “If you don’t do agriculture you don’t eat and that’s the most important goal of any society” she said.
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Green Investing Is Paying ff
BusinessWeek
So-called "ethical investing" may have posted tepid returns in the past but the push into alternative energy and other carbon dioxide-reducing technologies is already paying off. In the first seven months of 2009 "green" mutual funds such as the Winslow Green Growth Fund (.