Why shareholder engagement is a great investment in all our futures 

Activist investors have the power to direct the corporate world to embrace positive change. Kristin Hull offers a four-step guide to effective engagement.

Fiduciary duty and climate change: adding value in the longer term 

The responsibility to maximize profits guides how institutional investors, such as pension funds, invest on behalf of others. But that does not mean investing in climate change is off the table.

Nesta’s Lisa Barclay seeks returns on impact investing 

Impact investor Lisa Barclay explains how Nesta is building a virtuous circle of investment in UK startups.

We need to stop spreading a pie-in-the-sky view of impact investing 

Investing in decarbonization involves trade-offs between risk and return, so why are we pretending, otherwise asks Arturo Bris, who spoke in a panel on the topic at COP28 in Dubai.

3 steps to scale social entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as an innovative and sustainable approach to development, job creation and poverty alleviation. Philanthropic impact investors play a key role in building the social enterprise pipeline – from start-up to scale-up.

Banks can ensure Asia infrastructure projects have positive social impact

As Asia intensifies efforts to meet its growing infrastructure needs, increasing attention is being paid to environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations. Banks and other financial intermediaries are therefore having to think hard about the sustainability aspects of projects that they choose to finance.

Three trends to track as impact investing eyes the mainstream

2021 has been another year that has thrown global imbalances and inequalities into sharp relief. For many of us, this has triggered a re-evaluation of how we live, including where we put our money. Impact investing offers an increasing range of ways to reap positive social and environmental, as well as financial, returns.

How investors can balance risk, return and impact to spark positive change

Impact investment is a rapidly-evolving, diverse world that offers value beyond financial returns for investors and social enterprises of all shapes and sizes.

Three lessons in impact investment to absorb from Peruvian moss

Driving sustainable economic development through impact investing requires careful due diligence, strong partnerships and patient capital. The elea Foundation’s experience with Peruvian startup Inka Moss offers valuable lessons when it comes to navigating the impact landscape.

ESG investment must be built on measurement of real impact

Measuring the true impact of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investments is crucial to assessing the claims made by their promoters and comparing different opportunities. This is a difficult task but not impossible.

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