What’s the historical model of investing and impact? Investments produce a return and, separately, social impact was made with distributions through foundations. Today that’s changing. With social or impact investing, there’s a melding of the two. Impact investments are made for a “double or triple bottom line” effect while also producing risk/reward return.
And it’s not all done within a foundation. As JP Morgan for the Global Impact Investing Network reported on Jan. 7, 2013 in their “Perspectives on Progress, The Impact Investor Survey,” family offices, pension funds, endowments, banks, investment managers and individuals are increasingly making impact investments, which are driven by philanthropic intent. From 2012 to 2013, surve...
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