A year ago, every company had to have a Big Data story. Now, no initiative is complete without AI and machine learning. Extra points for “blockchain.” Next up: companies, asset owners and fund managers touting their alignment with “the SDGs.” If you don’t know already, those are the Sustainable Development Goals, with colored icons to […]
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National Australia Bank offers fixed-income gender equality bond
National Australia Bank has created a fixed-income gender equality bond. The new bond will finance “employers of choice for gender equality” as determined by an Australian government agency. Organizations on the list demonstrate commitment to cultivating female leadership, closing the gender pay gap, enabling a safe work environment, and offering family-friendly work arrangements. The bond’s portfolio […]
Your Money and Investments Matter – Workshop
Workshop March 28th NYC All Investors Have the Power – now more than ever Climate change. Inequality. Global finance. Politics. It’s enough to make anyone feel pessimistic. But as investors, we have the power to direct our money towards businesses and initiatives that are doing good in our communities and the world. Aligning Your Investments With […]
Morgan Stanley launches two sustainability strategies for smaller investors
Morgan Stanley’s wealth management unit has launched two sustainable investment products in which individuals can get started with as little as $10,000. Hilary Irby, head of Morgan Stanley’s Investing with Impact initiative, said the low investment threshold was part of a strategy to make sustainable investing more accessible. Morgan Stanley’s brokerage group launched similar offerings […]
Asian social stock exchange founder Durreen Shahnaz seeks Trump’s support for impact investing
Asian social stock exchange founder Durreen Shahnaz is seeking Trump’s support for impact investing. “I may have been born in Bangladesh, but I was nurtured to be a banker, media executive and entrepreneur in the US,” Shahnaz wrote in an open letter to President Trump. Shahnaz is the founder of IIX, based in Singapore, which connects […]
Jean Case is bullish on impact investing
Jean Case is bullish on impact investing. Writing in Stanford Social Innovation Review, the former AOL executive and head of the Case Foundation credits the growing influence of young people and women, the entrance of big institutions and an increasingly robust data ecosystem. On that last point, Case touts the Impact Investing Network Map under development […]
Top Impact Investor Communities
Presenting the Top Impact Investor Communities These Top Impact Investor Communities are where individuals and organizations can go to build relationships, learn about impact, explore shared values and collaborate on investing. Most of these communities host in person gatherings along with online resources, events and tools. Check out these amazing communities. GIIN – Global Impact Investing […]
The Role of SMEs in Global Economic Development
The Reality on the Ground – Free Talks Hear from leading practitioners in the field about the opportunities and challenges for SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) investment in the US and Internationally. SMEs, often described as too large for microfinance but too small for corporate banking, represent an important economic sector in any country. SMEs […]
World Bank: Tap Islamic finance to achieve the SDGs
Global Islamic finance represents $1.9 trillion in assets, mostly in predominantly Muslim countries in Africa and Asia, where large numbers of people still live on less than $1.25 per day. That makes financial institutions rooted in Islamic principles an under-tapped resource for the $3 to $5 trillion per year needed to achieve “shared prosperity” and […]
5 Ways to Be a Clean Money Revolutionary in 2017
A SOCAP Guest Post by Joel Solomon My first book, The Clean Money Revolution, is coming out in May. So, you may be asking, what is clean money? Clean Money is money aligned with purpose: money that is about more than self-interest; money that prioritizes the commons; money that makes the world better. Clean money […]
Sonen Capital raises $75 million to invest in sustainable real assets
Sonen Capital has closed its first fund for investments in real assets like buildings, energy infrastructure and land. The San Francisco-based investment manager already has made eight investments in affordable housing, clean energy, and timber in the U.S. Africa and Asia. Launched in 2012, Sonen has nearly $400 million under management and impact investment strategies […]
What’s New In Impact Investing? February Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Advisor Perspective: Opening My Eyes To Impact Investing
Katherine St. Onge, Senior Officer, Investor Relations, talks with advisors during an impact investing tour in Denver, CO. Before my time here at Calvert Foundation, I spent most of my career as a financial advisor with some of the big-name financial planning firms and traditional wirehouses. I remember during my first year as an advisor […]
Happy Birthday, Ours To Own Baltimore
by Beth Bafford, Investments Director, and Rodney Foxworth, Invested Impact on February 21, 2017 This month we celebrate the one-year anniversary of Ours To Own in Baltimore. Ours To Own is an investment initiative created to engage individual investors in the creation of local economic and community value in the Charm City with the belief that small […]
Positive Impact Finance Stands on Principles
PARIS, France, February 21, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Nineteen global banks and investors, worth a total of US$6.6 trillion in assets, have agreed on a set of standards for financing sustainable development framed as the first-ever Principles for Positive Impact Finance. On the last Monday in January, the set of four unpublished Positive Impact Principles […]
Global Impact Investing Network Measures Progress by Strong Management Practices
The Global Impact Investing Network is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing around the world. The GIIN builds critical infrastructure and supports activities, education, and research that help accelerate the development of a coherent impact investing industry. As impact investing continues grow and open up to new audiences, […]
Not All Crowdfunding Strategies Are Created Equal
There has been a lot of controversy lately surrounding Title III platforms that has been giving crowdfunding a bad name. To offer some clarity, it is helpful to understand the difference between crowdfunding, the JOBS Act, and Direct Public Offerings. The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, was initially signed into law on April 5, […]
Impact Investment Funds Adopt Diverse Approaches to Promote Sustainability
(3BL Media/Justmeans) – Increasing demand for a more socially responsible, purpose-driven finance has led to the emergence of innovative approaches to impact investing. Although impact investing began many years ago as a niche activity practiced by large philanthropists, it is now spearheaded by a wide range of impact investment funds that are committed to the […]
Venture Capitalists Focus on ESG-Driven Investments
(3BL Media/Justmeans) – A Venture Capital Trust (VCT) is a type of publicly listed, tax-advantaged investment fund in the UK, designed as a way for individual investors to gain access to VC investments via capital markets. In recent years, VCTs have increased their focus on socially responsible investments that take environmental, social and governance (ESG) […]
Prime Coalition and Investors’ Circle back solar startup
Prime Coalition and Investors’ Circle have backed solar startup, ConnectDER. ConnectDER helps home solar systems easily connect to the electric grid and helps utilities manage such distributed energy inputs. The $1.1 million investment includes nine individual investors from Investors’ Circle; Prime brought together a mix of program-related investments and grants from the Ellis Family Fund, the […]
ImpactAssets Releases Annual IA 50 Impact Investment Fund Showcase
Industry’s only free, searchable database of outstanding impact investing fund managers features firms that manage $10.6 billion in assets. BETHESDAY, M.d., Feb. 14 /CSRwire/ – ImpactAssets has released its 2016 impact investing showcase, the ImpactAssets 50 (IA 50), a free online resource for investors and financial advisors. The sixth annual list provides a diversified overview […]
Dina Powell: Impact investing’s woman in the White House
Whither social-impact investment in the Trump administration may depend on Dina Powell, the former Goldman Sachs executive who was named, with Ivanka Trump’s help, assistant to the president and senior counselor for economic initiatives. Powell joined Ivanka, the president and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Monday’s roundtable meeting in the Cabinet Room on women entrepreneurs. […]
Six opportunities – and one big risk – for impact investors in 2017
Political headwinds are serving as a wake up call for the growing movement of investors and activists using the capital markets to curb climate change, eliminate global poverty and close the gap on income inequality. Stripped of the comforting support of a sympathetic President Obama, investors and advisors seeking demonstrable, measurable impact on social and […]
Infographic: Impact Investing Study
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 13 /CSRwire/ – American Century Investments and Greenwich Associates conducted a study on the views of institutional investors and financial intermediaries about the growing interest in impact investing. Between late 2015 and early 2016, Greenwich Associates surveyed a total of 277 institutional investors, investment consultants, intermediary platform decision-makers and financial advisors […]
Calvert Foundation and U.S. Bancorp back $20 million fund for small business lending
Calvert Foundation and U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation have backed a new $20 million fund for small business lending in U.S. communities. Greenline Ventures, a minority-controlled and employee-owned firm in Denver, will manage the fund. The fund leverages New Markets Tax Credits, a federal program that incentivizes business and real estate investment in low-income U.S. communities with […]
Which Side Are You On? (No, This Isn’t About Trump)
Fair warning: he-who-shall-not-be-mentioned just might make a cameo appearance below. But the bigger decision facing investors, from American families with 401(k)s to managers of the world’s largest pension and sovereign wealth funds: Whether to bet on the low-carbon energy transformation now under way – or stick with business-as-usual. It’s not renewables that are ‘alternative.’ […]
Impact Investing Rise Good News for Women and Benefit Corps
Impact investing is expanding, and that is creating new opportunities for social enterprises, including Benefit Corporations, women-led firms and community-based ventures. Those are some of the implications of a recent study conducted by the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF) Foundation. “There are encouraging signs for social entrepreneurs,” says Meg Voorhes, director of research for […]
Invest Northwest: Ten-Year Final Performance Review
For ten years Pacific Community Ventures has worked with the Northwest Area Foundation (NWAF) and the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) to annually evaluate the social performance of Invest Northwest, a place-based mission-related private equity fund. Invest Northwest was created in 2004 with the twin objectives of generating market-rate financial returns and social returns aligned […]
Which investors are bridging the gap in research funding?
The fate of climate and other public research may be in the hands of private investors and philanthropists as the EPA and other agencies face cutbacks under the Trump administration, reports FastCompany. Who’s stepping up? In January, Al Gore stepped in to revive a CDC climate and health conference in Atlanta. Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla, […]
How Millennials are using Data to Power the Impact Investing Movement
by Sean Tennerson, Program Officer, The Case Foundation For those of you who know the Case Foundation, we’re bullish on the impact investing movement and the power of private capital for public good. While still a relatively small market, impact investments are surging, with some seeing a trillion-dollar market potential by 2020. Against that context, […]
Where do Impact Investors go to find community?
What are the top Impact Investor Communities? Share where individuals can go to build relationships, learn about impact, explore shared values and collaborate on investing. Help us create a resource list of top investor communities for Impact Investing. What do you like? What do you think? Participate – Vote on the form below for a listed resource or add […]
A “Farmer First” Approach to Land Access
Think “local food,” and your mind’s eye produces various images of farmers in vast fields harvesting strawberries as the sun rises. Or you visualize a weekend farmers market offering colorful arrays of fruits and vegetables. These images strike at the idea of a food movement that has grown more diversified and equitable. But barriers persist, […]
Join The Economist – Impact Investing Conference
A new Impact Investing conference by The Economist Risk, return and impact: a new role for capital markets in building a better world Join editors of The Economist and more than 200 leading financiers, institutional investors, policymakers, academics, impact investors and philanthropies to analyse the main opportunities and obstacles to the mainstreaming of impact investment. Pledged to […]
Does Impact Investing Matter in the Age of Trump and Brexit? (Or, How I Talked Myself Down From the Ledge)
I’ve been overwhelmed by the outpouring of ideas and passion since I put out a call for answers to the question, “Does impact investing still matter in the age of Trump and Brexit. The takeaway: Yes, more than ever. There is a real danger that impact investing will only makes rich people feel good about their […]
Impact Investing for the 99%: A New Path to Mainstreaming
A SOCAP Guest Post by Joshua Levin of OpenInvest All investments have impact. But to-date, impact investing has been largely limited to small, private companies, and accessible only to accredited investors. What if it were possible for normal folks to easily allocate their retirement portfolios in such a way that maximized the impact of their investments […]
Backstage Capital eyes second fund for women- and minority-led startups
It took Arlan Hamilton 16 months to convince Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz, Brad Feld of Foundry Group, ex-Salesforce executive Susan Kimberlin and others to put up $5 million for Backstage Capital to invest in women- and minority-owned businesses. Hamilton expects it to take as little as two months to raise Backstage’s second fund, as […]
Japan will use dormant bank accounts for social impact investments
Japan will use dormant bank accounts for social impact investments. The new fund, to be launched in 2019, will be modeled on the UK’s Big Society Capital, which uses unclaimed bank accounts to finance charities and social enterprises. Portugal and Israel have also moved to create such capital pools. An estimated 100 billion yen ($886.5 […]
What’s New In Impact Investing? January Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Investors Put Over $8B Into Conservation: Can It Continue in the Trump Era?
By Kelley Hamrick On a mild, rainy day in Washington, D.C., America inaugurated its 45th president. The incoming administration represents a fundamental shift from the outgoing Obama administration. And the White House website was updated accordingly. Instead of a clean-energy future, WhiteHouse.gov now announces: “President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the […]
Impact Investing: The Change we all Seek
By Liz Sessler. If this past year has shown us anything, it’s that the world is seeking change–and is looking for it in places they’ve never looked before. Although the current political, economic, and social climate brings with it tremendous uncertainty, it also presents an incredible opportunity for the impact investing community as people actively […]
Ross Baird has a plan to build businesses and create jobs in rural America
Village Capital founder Ross Baird gets his say in a long profile in Bloomberg Businessweek. His formula: look for three-baggers, versus the 10X returns most VCs expect, in agriculture, healthcare and energy – and look for them in the red states between the coasts. Example: Fin Gourmet, a Kentucky startup that hires disadvantaged workers to […]
After the Women’s March: Make the Most of Where You Shop, Save and Invest
We marched. We came together in cities across the globe to protest the inauguration of a president who does not embody the values we espouse. So many of us marched, it was the largest recorded protest in U.S. history. There were so many thoughtful messages and humorous signs, and many different issues to embrace and hold […]
Muni Bonds and Social Justice Webinar
Muni Bonds and Social Justice Part II: What can we do? How can we know factually which muni bond issuers are actually creating a net benefit for society and the environment — and which might be subpar from an impact allocation perspective? And can even everyday investors help rebuild their communities via muni investing? And […]
Sorry, ‘Feel Good’ Investors: Deep Impact Requires Concessions
“We thought that the only way to achieve large-scale impact was to build large commercial enterprises that could generate enough cash to support both organizational growth and market-level impact. But as we began investing more heavily and more directly in early-stage companies that targeted less advantaged populations in emerging markets, we began to notice the […]
Is Microcredit a Vaccine or an Antibiotic?
I believe there’s a strong case for social investment in microcredit, but that the best case is built on new theories of change. Historically the standard microcredit theory of change has been that many (if not most) households are eager to start their own microenterprise but are stymied by a lack of access to credit, […]
2017 Rate Increase Announcement
On January 1, 2017, RSF Social Finance increased its “RSF Prime” base interest rate for borrowers to 5.00%. Other participants in the Social Investment Fund (SIF) are affected as follows: the investor rate is now 0.75%, up from 0.50%, and the RSF revenue share will remain at 4.25%. The decision to raise rates is a […]
Major Drivers and Trends in SRI Investing Growth
Sustainable Responsible Impact Investing Grows 33% in 2 Years In recent years, numerous trends have shaped the evolution and growth of SRI within US financial markets: Money managers increasingly are incorporating ESG factors into their investment analysis and portfolio construction, driven by the demand for ESG investing products from institutional and individual investors and by […]
A Progressive Investor’s Action Guide for the Next Administration
Concerned about the direction of the country? Make your voice—and money—heard, argues financial advisor James Frazier in this guest post. Now that the 2016 presidential election is in the history books, the rough outlines of the next few years are starting to become a little clearer. We can reasonably expect a federal government with less […]
Measuring Impact With Meaning: 50 Funds That Are Best For The World
December was a big month for impact investing, wrapping up an even bigger year. The momentum of our movement was on display at an oversubscribed GIIN Investor Forum in Amsterdam, where more than 800 investors and supporters of impact gathered for a two-day deep dive on the state of the industry. Nearly a decade in, […]
Slow and Steady Does it for Regulation Crowdfunding
It wasn’t quite the fireworks that some had hoped for, but Regulation Crowdfunding closed the year with a respectable showing. In 2016, 186 companies launched Reg CF campaigns, attracting $19 million in capital commitments, according to year-end data compiled by Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA). Investor interest and investment have increased steadily since the law went […]
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