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Open the Spigot: The Way We Think About Impact Investing is Too Narrow
You hear about it all the time in impact investing reports, articles and blogs: The lack of deal flow. But Tanner Taddeo of ChangeSquare believes the industry's challenge isn't a lack of investible companies, but rather the industry’s narrow definition of impact and how it "blinds" investors to companies that are creating impact in other industries and geographies. Taking a more holistic, rather than plug-and-play approach, will contribute to a broadening definition of impact and subsequently open the spigot for deals, he argues.
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Press release: New Report Reveals a Growing and High-Potential Impact Investing Market in Southeast Asia
The Landscape for Impact Investing in Southeast Asia report provides deep insight into the three most active markets in the region: Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, and a broader regional overview of the remaining eight countries, namely Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Annual GIIN survey reveals dynamic and diverse impact investing market
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has published the eighth edition of its Annual Impact Investor Survey, which reveals that the impact investing industry is growing steadily.
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- Investing
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Impact Investors Hold US$228 Billion in Assets
While not comprehensive, the annual survey “represents the largest exercise of its type in the market,”says Abhilash Mudaliar, the GIIN’s director of research.
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- Investing
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Press release: Evidence for competitive financial performance of impact investing through private debt highlighted by new study
A new report by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Symbiotics, which analyzes the performance of impact investing through private debt, finds that private debt funds seeking positive impact can offer very stable returns across various risk-return strategies.
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GIIN Roadmap Presents ‘Unashamedly Ambitious’ Vision For Impact Investing
The framework, which was started to coincide with the 10 year anniversary of the coining of the term impact investing, assesses industry progress to date and outlines specific actions needed to exponentially enhance the scale and effectiveness of impact investing across the world.
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Press release: New report provides insight into replicable practices for a critical phase of impact investments
“Impact investing has huge potential to generate positive long-term outcomes for society and the environment,” said GIIN Research Director Abhilash Mudaliar. “But investors need to have the confidence that they will be able to exit responsibly. There are many more exit approaches to meet financial objectives and ensure sustained impact post-exit than investors may be aware of. This report should provide impact investors with proven strategies that they can use to exit their investments in ways that won’t jeopardize the impact they seek to create.”
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Impact Investing Can Be Profitable, New Report Says
Throughout the industry’s development, however, some investors have questioned the ability of impact investments to generate financial returns similar to traditional investments, and lack of data has left this question unanswerable.
Now a new report from the Global Impact Investing Network looks to recent research that it says has shed valuable light on what are appropriate and achievable financial performance expectations.- Categories
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