Definitions—we are so over them in the social investing sector. Yet every so often a new one comes along and we really have to sit up and take notice. This blog tells why.
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The circular economy movement is gaining momentum fast. Yet businesses who want to transition to a circular model still find it difficult to secure finance. Social investors should get behind them and lend support to what will an important step toward a sustainable future for all.
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Investors are demanding them. The global business community is boosting them. Companies large and small are trying to figure out how to produce them. Extra-financial performance results—the environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics that demonstrate that a company is acting responsibly—are now a major focus for businesses and investors alike.
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We’ve known for a long time that corruption hurts markets and strangles enterprise. A new book by social entrepreneur Sarah Chayes provides evidence that corruption is even worse, and more dangerous, than we thought.
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We need your help to raise $122,000 in order to restore land and change lives Maximpact is reaching out to its network to assist World Vision in raising the remaining $122,000 for the 2015 Beating Famine Conference in Africa. This is your opportunity to be part of a global movement In 2012 the first Beating […]
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A growing body of sector research is shining light on the principles of how social enterprises can use outcome monitoring to strengthen mission and deliver a blended bottom line.
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Socially conscious millennials are seeking more opportunities to put their money into impact, sustainable and socially beneficial investment strategies. To meet their demands, asset managers will have to hone their traditional skills — and learn some new ones.
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Activist investors are turning the corporate world upside down with aggressive campaigns to change strategy and leadership. At the same time, they’re rewriting the rules of engagement between businesses and those who invest in them, contributing to a more combative climate in the boardroom and beyond. What will this mean for social businesses and the investors who back them?
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Impact investors and impact-driven businesses share a strong desire to see that businesses are tri-profitable, producing financial rewards, social benefits and environmental regeneration. Yet shared values aren’t enough for successful collaboration. To work together more effectively, argues guest blogger Antony Upton, they need better tools for sharing information.
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The World Economic Forum has been and gone, leaving the Davos snow more than a little trampled. Now that 2500+ of the world’s most powerful people have flown home in somewhat fewer than 1700 private jets, what do we know about what’s coming in 2015? And, more specifically, what lessons did the Forum hold for impact and social investors?
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A growing body of evidence shows that good sustainability practice reduces risk and improves company performance. What will that mean for the move to mainstream sustainability–and how will mainstreaming change the role of sustainability’s devoted early adopters?
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The G8 Working Group report Allocating for Impact has given our sector the tools to expand into the mainstream, argues Harald Walkate, Head of Responsible Investing for Aegon Asset Management. But it will take active outreach to the individual decision-makers within pension funds, insurance companies, asset management firms and sovereign wealth funds to bring the changes needed for impact to reach its full potential.
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Sustainability is a key concept for our times. For impact investors who want to put their capital behind better ways of doing business, it’s an important indicator of investability. But what exactly do we mean when we say “sustainability” or “sustainable”? This blog explores how the meaning of sustainability is changing and what that may mean for social investors.
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From U.S. News and World Report’s 2014 ranking of the top business schools, we selected three U.S. based schools and two international schools where some of the social investing leaders of the future will learn their craft.
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