News snapshot
- Charmian Love, CEO of Volans, shares what conversations are happening in London, UK, surrounding impact investing and social innovation
- Al Tamimi Investments, an impact investment firm based in the United Arab Emirates, shares its success story
- Aleem Walji claims the shortage of capital, intermediaries and technical assistance are the main barriers hindering the growth of the impact investing sector, and not pipeline, as commonly thought
- The UK’s Big Lottery Fund commits over $3 million to eight social investment schemes in an effort to make more social enterprises sustainable
- Can you have both profit and impact? Forbes interviews Tahira Dosani of LeapFrog Investments to find out
- Lord Hodgson in the UK calls for amendments to the Financial Services Bill so that it recognises and better caters for social investments
- Ashoka wins 2012 Global Long-Term Capitalism Challenge for its collaborative initiative, Full Economic Citizenship (FEC). Ashoka’s founder Bill Drayton shares more on the FEC initiative in an interview with Axiom News
- Echoing Green introduces the Recoverable Grant, a new approach to drive social and financial returns in impact investing
Weekend reads
- Bates Wells & Braithwaite highlight Ten Reforms to Grow the Social Investment Market in the UK in their recently released report
- In an effort to determine the current value of the impact investing landscape in the US, PCV Insights valued the impact investment assets managed by private equity managers in the US. The results of the research are detailed in their report, Market for Social Impact Investing by Private Equity Funds Stands at $4 billion in the United States
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