Conducting social and environmental due diligence may be good practice for investors with an eye on impact outcomes, but it certainly costs money and time—and does it really make business sense? Root Capital’s new briefing paper uncovers the business case for social and environmental due diligence, showing how the practice pays for itself—and then some.
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Pressures on our natural resources are getting bigger—and the consequences of depleting them are getting clearer—but a global movement for sustainability is now encouraging an explosion in the kind of responsible resource businesses that belong in our impact portfolios.
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MINT s are all over the financial pages—that is, the emerging economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey. But while these countries may be a discovery for mainstream investors, impact and social benefit investors have known about them for years—and are now in pole position to place impact capital where it really counts.
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Services are a hot issue for the growing impact sector. We need them—and it looks like some data-based services will soon be coming our way. But is this all we need to succeed? This blog looks at what services impact sector really needs—and where we have to look to find them.
+Read MoreAs we start using our new holiday gifts this year, it is too easy to ignore the miraculous supply networks that allow us to enjoy the products of human labor and ingenuity around the world. Sustainability is increasingly viewed as a strategy for enduring in a world of scarce resources and unlimited needs; but we seem to be locked in an endless cycle of merely reacting to deep-seated economic and social problems.
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This has been an amazing year for impact investing. Here we round up some of the top reasons why the sector has the right to feel cheerful about 2013—and look forward optimistically to 2014.
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With the Winter Holidays close at hand, thoughts of gift buying are at the forefront of most people’s minds. This month instead of focusing on the financial side of making an impact, we decided to look at how sustainability can be incorporated into your giving.
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High-profile individuals such as Livia Firth with her Green Carpet Challenge and Francine LeFrak, founder of Same Sky, help break the vicious circle of poverty, discrimination and marginalization through beautiful objects handcrafted by women for a market which can afford to help this change. Unsung heroines such as social entrepreneurs Adriana Marina of Animanà and Aissa Dione, a Senegalese textile designer, are further shining examples of the beauty of this new-found synergy. These businesswomen have brought hope and pride back to their own struggling communities with the highly successful manufacture of exquisite textile and other heritage crafts sold to top designers worldwide.
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Women’s financial empowerment has been a hot topic in recent months. There’s a definite (deserved) buzz around gender-lens investing and its potential to make more of impact capital. Yet, while the gender lens approach is an exciting step forward for women’s financial empowerment, it isn’t the whole story.
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UnitedSucces: When exploring the words“impact” and “empowerment” it is easy to overlook the true depth of meaning behind the potential for the words when you combine them! Exploring how women throughout the world can be positively affected so that they feel the true benefit of impactful empowerment it is important to explore why women don’t succeed or don’t proceed as fast as expected.
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Who are some of the leading organizations when it comes to gender lens investing? Where to look for sector opportunities and resources? What are some of the key investment vehicles specifically targeting women? See our review.
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Women Professionals: As impact moves into a consolidation phase, how can female impact finance professionals improve their performance and make more of a difference? We have compiled a list of seven practical steps women in impact could—and probably should—take to make the most of their professional lives.
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Good news for impact investing in Asia: The Role of Women Investors is changing, as more women become key contributors to Asia’s social capital markets.
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Jed Emerson on the groundbreaking new report Impact Investing 2.0 and what it means for the leadership of successful impact investing funds.
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