NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Different people in the impact investing community have different expectations about what the financial returns of such investments should be. Some seek risk-adjusted returns at or even above market benchmarks. Others view impact investing as likely generating sub-market returns, but still preferable to a grant in many cases, because the money deployed does largely flow back to the investor, and because of other factors.