Global Handbook of Impact Investing

Discover how to invest your capital to achieve a powerful, lasting impact on the world.
The Global Handbook of Impact Investing: Solving Global Problems Via Smarter Capital Markets Towards A More Sustainable Society is an insightful guide to the growing world-wide movement of Impact Investing. Impact investors seek to realize lasting, beneficial improvements in society by allocating capital to sources of impactful and sustainable profit.

This Handbook is a how-to guide for institutional investors, including family offices, foundations, endowments, governments, and international organizations, as well as academics, students, and everyday investors globally. The Handbook´s wide-ranging contributions from around the world make a powerful case for positive impact and profit to fund substantive, lasting solutions that solve critical problems across the world.

Edited by two experienced and distinguished professionals in the sustainable investing arena and authored by two dozen renowned experts from finance, academia, and multilateral organizations from around the world, the Global Handbook of Impact Investing educates, inspires, and spurs action towards more responsible investing across all asset classes, resulting in smarter capital markets, including how to:

·         Realize positive impact and profit

·         Integrate impact into investment decision-making and portfolio

·         Allocate impactful investments across all asset classes

·         Apply unique Impact Investing frameworks

·         Measure, evaluate and report on impact

·         Learn from case examples around the globe

·         Pursue Best Practices in Impact Investing and impact reporting

 While other resources may take a local or limited approach to the subject, this Handbook gathers global knowledge and results from public and private institutions spanning five continents. The authors also make a powerful case for the ability of Impact Investing to lead to substantive and lasting change that addresses critical problems across the world.

ELSA DE MORAIS SARMENTO is an Associate Researcher at NOVAFRICA at Nova Business School of Management and Economics. She co-edited The Emerald Handbook of Public Private Partnerships in Developing and Emerging Economies.

R. PAUL HERMAN is CEO of HIP (Human Impact + Profit) Investor Ratings and Portfolios and has served as faculty at business schools around the world. He is author of The HIP Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World.

PRAISE FOR GLOBAL HANDBOOK OF IMPACT INVESTING " Impact investing is a new opportunity to combine forces of private capital and public policy objectives. This Global Handbook of Impact Investing offers information and inspiration for using these tested but still relatively new financial instruments for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)." --Hon. Jyrki Katainen, MSc, President, Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA; former European Commission's Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness; former Prime Minister of Finland " If we truly want a more sustainable, more inclusive world, we must change the way we invest our money. This book helps move us toward a future in which every investment decision considers impact alongside profit. Money can do so much more than just make more money, and the problems of our world are far too urgent for our capital to underperform." --Amit Bouri, MBA, MPA, Co-founder and CEO, Global Impact Investing Network " The world of investing needs to evolve our values and priorities towards more interdependence so that economic growth will support and transform, instead of jeopardize, equitable human development for all 7 billion of us. This global handbook contains ideas, innovations, and pathways towards a better world for all of us via our portfolios." --Annie Chen, JD, Founder and Chair, RS Investment Group, Hong Kong "This book explains why and how impact investors are achieving leaps of profitability and impact, providing a suite of strategies and solutions for investors who understand that the world of finance has changed. We have the immense opportunity to improve the lives of millions while pursuing stronger financial returns." --Dr. Andrew Kuper, Founder and CEO, LeapFrog Capital; Board Member, Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) " This global handbook breathes life into a vision for a future that can be financially prosperous--as well as provide access to good health, clean water, and a sustainable environment." --Rosemary Addis, AM, Impact Strategist; Ambassador, Global Steering Group for Impact Investment; Senior Strategic Adviser, UNDP " Financial capitalism needs a second life, and that life is called impact investing . This book is thus a powerful resource for anyone interested in exploring and understanding the brave new world of impact investing." --Dr. Filipe Santos, Chaired Professor of Social Entrepreneurship; Dean, Cat

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