25 years: Private equity & banking
In this video, Gavin explores the viability of impact investing, i.e. achieving both financial and social returns on investment, and outlines where this concept relates to private equity.
In this video, Gavin explores the viability of impact investing, i.e. achieving both financial and social returns on investment, and outlines where this concept relates to private equity.
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Impact investment is an investment strategy which explicitly combines the dual objectives of financial returns as well as social good, with the underlying idea that there need not be trade offs between the two. Dedicated impact funds still represent a small minority of total private equity investors today. The still open questions in impact investment are firstly, how to measure social returns; and secondly, whether it is really possible to achieve dual returns without trade offs.
Key learning objectives:
Understand how impact investments are structured
Understand the context of and players in impact investment
Understand the intersection between private equity and impact investment
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The main impetus for the development of impact investing as an asset class came from a combination of charitable foundations, developmental finance institutions and some pioneering impact fund managers. Impact investing was resulting from a desire for new approaches by:
One of the selling points of impact investment to the not for profit sector, is the concept that the capital deployed will be returned and can thus be redeployed again.
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