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The Trouble With Impact Investing – Part 1
On its face, impact investing seems like a great deal—organizations get cheap money (er, “patient capital”) and investors get real impact. It’s great when it works that way, but the case for impact is often dubious, and there is a lot of confusion about when impact investing works and when it doesn’t.
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Insight into the Impact Investment Market: An Interview with Amit Bouri
J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently released “Insight into the Impact Investment Market,” a report incorporating data from over 2,200 private transactions and the perspectives of 52 impact investors on returns, risk and impact measurement practices. GIIN’s Amit Bouri details the progress and obstacles identified in the report.
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- Impact Assessment
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Scaling Up Impact Investing In China
Tao Zhang, the Chief Operating Officer of New Ventures, WRI’s center for environmental entrepreneurship with local operations in China and five other high growth markets, says given the need for China to create sustainable economic growth over the decades to come, impact investing has an important role to play and should gain traction there.
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The View from Canada: Impact Investing 2.0 – Your Money, Your Way
At the Social Finance Forum hosted by the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing last month in Toronto, speakers revealed new opportunities and new mechanisms for retail-sized investors seeking social and monetary dividends - from solar bonds to affordable housing.
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Chasing Gazelles to Achieve Poverty Reduction, Development Goals
Economist David Birch coined the term "gazelle" as private businesses with annual revenue growth of 20% over four years. Such SMEs create the vast majority of new jobs and GDP growth in the U.S. and Europe, but how does this translate into opportunities in emerging markets? A recent IFC memo and forum on harnessing gazelles offers answers.
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Growing Up Fast, What the Dalberg Survey Tells Us About Successful Social Entrepreneurs
Want to find out what made the good enterprises great - and not just in anecdotal form? Dalberg Global Development Advisors clearly thought so. Working with Harvard, the consulting firm polled more than 60 social entreprenurs to find out how they lept the hurdles that every venture faces. Check out the survey and a replay of the live webinar.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Good News: IRIS Report Shows Many Impact Investing Recipients Are Profitable; But More Study Needed
The first Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) performance data report collected data from nearly 2,400 mission-driven organizations, with 70% of responding microfinance institutions and 63% of portfolio organizations reporting profits. As importantly, the report adds to data-driven market intelligence for the impact investing industry.
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2011 Social Finance Forum: Investing in Good Deals
Last year, over 300 people gathered for the launch of the Mobilizing Private Capital for Public Good report by the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance. It was a call to action on the role of capital markets to create economic/social sustainability. This year, Canada’s impact investing marketplace will tackle what it means to invest in good deals.
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