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Impact investing
The future of investing is impact
Like many foundations around the world, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is on a journey to make better use of our investment assets. As with our £50 million of annual grant-making, we want our £1.2 billion endowment …
We need to bring every pool of capital to the table, says AVPN’s chief of impact investing
Alliance Investment Editor Claudia Cahalane chats to AVPN’s chief of impact investing, Vikas Arora in a tea break on the last day of the AVPN global forum, Abu Dhabi, and discovers his conference highlights. ‘Imagine …
International Women’s Day: ‘If you care about social impact, you should not be ignoring African women’
At the age of 29, Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes founded one of the few women-owned investment companies in Africa. With women in Africa recieving only a tiny amount of investment money, yet outperforming men on stock exchanges, …
Pension scheme pool commits 40% of new fund to impact investments in ‘market-leading’ move
One of the UK’s eight Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pools has committed 40% of a new investment vehicle to impact investing (social or environmental impact). The pool manager – Brunel Pension Partnership – manages …
Green and social bonds could be key to meeting SDGs
Issuing new green, social and sustainability bonds in emerging markets could be crucial to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is the claim of a new report by the Global Steering Group for …
Case Studies Show Best Practice in Impact Measurement and Management
For the past decade, as the importance of transparency and accountability within the philanthropy and social impact investment sector increased, impact measurement has moved from margin to mainstream, from too hard, to can’t miss. Today, …
Now free to read – The women effect
From the June 2014 issue of Alliance magazine. From the September 2013 issue of Alliance magazine. – See more at: http://philanthropynews.alliancemagazine.org/2014/07/02/now-free-to-read-interview-theo-sowa/#sthash.znurmwvs.dpuf Try this exercise. When you think ‘women’ and ‘investing’ what do you think about? …
Going for gold? Active Philanthropy publishes a different book on impact investing
What really is this ‘impact investing’? Some readers might sigh ‘Not again!’ Still, it is a question that we hear every day from donors, foundations, public officials, company representatives and others. In the philanthropy and …
Corporate impact venturing: building the pipeline of later-stage opportunities for impact investors
How to stimulate the venture stage of the impact investing market with fresh ideas has stubbornly remained an open question. However, an answer in the form of corporate venture capital that considers impact (or corporate …
The ‘So-What’ of your Impact Story: Understanding the role played by impact funds in driving ‘impact’
It has been only 7 years since the term ‘Impact Investing’ was formally coined, but for a relatively young sector, the numbers aren’t too disappointing. Indian funds have invested in enterprises across a wide range …
