Tagged - impact investing

Investors big and small took the leap this week to make a difference. Highlights included £25m being raised in 24 hours for affordable housing, financial inclusion being backed by some big guns and the proliferation of advisors.

Damien Lardoux, who manages the positive impact portfolio at EQ Investors (an accredited B Corp) has come up with five suggestions that could help take impact investing mainstream.

Global Impact Investing Network CEO Amit Bouri urges asset managers to put more of their $70 trillion into responsible investments to help meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals 

The GIIN's 2016 Impact Investor's Survey forecasts steady growth in the global impact investment market over the next year. Ellie Ward speaks to CEO Amit Bouri to find out more.

From the type of money coming into the African continent to ineffective aid, Pioneers Post and Intellecap ask the founders of four Africa ventures: What does the world need to know about African enterprise?

Has VP created a more rational market system for non-profit funding? And is this form of capital distribution here to stay? Ellie Ward reports.

In Issue 2 of Pioneers Post Quarterly we ask, with inequality on the rise, will social value, rather than financial value, become a global aspiration? Ethical labels, the social economy in Southeast Asia and leadership burnout are also all up for discussion.

Global leader on impact investing Antony Bugg-Levine takes Pioneers Post Quarterly readers through the media that matters to him – from getting a global perspective by checking Twitter to flicking through the New York Times on his daily commute.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals fail to recognise the power of business in promoting positive social change concludes a new report launched by Social Enterprise UK, the British Council and the World Bank in Washington D.C. today.