Category Archives: Social Impact Investing

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney today announced the launch of a new investment platform designed to help clients align their financial goals and their personal values. The Investing with Impact Platform offers clients and Financial Advisors a broad range of investment … Continue reading →

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is partnering with Promotora Social Mexico, a social investor, to host a special one and a half day meeting focusing on investing for a social impact in Latin America. This will be the most comprehensive … Continue reading →

For-profit companies that trumpet a commitment to social and environmental causes often struggle to prove to investors and customers that their dedication to betterment runs deeper than a clever green-washing campaign. But that has begun to change. A growing number … Continue reading →

RBC today announced a $20 million commitment to a new social and environmental initiative aimed at facilitating solutions to social and environmental problems. “Impact finance” describes a range of financial vehicles and services that use private capital to finance solutions to social … Continue reading →

Opportunities in China for impact investing are growing, where investors look to create positive social and environmental benefits alongside returns. Impact investors actively choose to put their money into companies that address social and environmental issues through their business models. Tao … Continue reading →

Two of the world’s most influential figures in social investment have set out a powerful vision for the opportunities around putting your money where your values are. Antony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson set out their ideas for ‘transforming how we … Continue reading →

Recently, I interviewed Gloria Nelund, Chairman and CEO of TriLinc Global, LLC—a private investment company dedicated to creating a global platform for impact investing through alternative investment funds. With the launch of a $1.25 billion Global Impact Fund for “mainstreet” … Continue reading →

Brussels. Social businesses are companies that have a positive social impact and address social objectives as their corporate aim rather than only maximising profit. It is a growing sector in Europe, already representing 10% of all European businesses and employing … Continue reading →

Ethical-investments.org released a new article today in response to the launch of Deutsche Bank’s latest investment fund in the UK. The financial company unveiled this week a £10 million social investment fund to support social projects with a financial return. … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — US SIF Foundation Report Finds Strong Growth in Private Equity, Venture Capital, Property Investment and Hedge Funds Weighing Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria The latest sign that sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) … Continue reading →