Australia and New Zealand should introduce a mandatory impact-risk statement for funds making explicit claims about their environmental or social impacts.
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Access to finance is a significant barrier for Māori communities wanting to develop housing on collectively owned land. Community initiative Whare Ora shows what can be done.
Some investors are more open than others to considering the risk that their money might not have the impact they’re seeking.
Small businesses in the French ‘banlieue’ suburbs are overlooked by traditional banks, but give better, more socially beneficial returns than their city centre counterparts.
We need more targeted investments in solutions that have a positive impact on nature to reverse biodiversity loss.
There’s a lot of evidence to suggest South Africa should grow its impact investment market.
When the only fixes getting funded are designed to leave the status quo intact, the results of philanthropy inevitably fall short.
These partnerships between investors, governments and nonprofits are a new way to pay for programs and services that help people in need and address intractable problems like mass incarceration.
Research shows that ‘impact investing’ not only delivers good financial returns, but it supports a great many social and environmental programs in Australia.
Universities have the power to transform society not just through how they operate their campuses, but also through how they invest their endowments and pensions funds.
Impact investments are designed to achieve a measurable social or environmental – as well as financial – return.
The World Economic Forum reports there is widespread confusion regarding what impact investing promises and what it ultimately delivers. Some estimate it is a market worth between US$450 billion and US$650…
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Professor in Innovation and Impact, UNSW
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Lecturer and PhD Candidate UCT Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
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Full Professor of Sustainable Finance, Kedge Business School
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Senior lecturer, UNSW
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Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Finance, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria
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Academic in the Department of Business Management., Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Assistant Professor of Management, School of Business Administration, Harrisburg campus, Penn State
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Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs, Associate Director, Trachtenberg School, Co-Director: George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, George Washington University
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Professor and Shapiro Chair of Public Policy and Public Administration, Trachtenberg School, George Washington University
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Assistant Professor de Dirección Estratégica, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)
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Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor of Business Policy and Strategy, University of Michigan-Dearborn