Social investment

 

SOCAP 11 – Where money meets meaning

Ekta Kothari
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

Bringing together over 1,500 people from 75 countries, SOCAP 11 was a rendezvous for social impact investing, entrepreneurship and innovation. It lived up to its tag of ‘Where money meets meaning’, and saw a global gathering of everyone: NGOs, investors, foundations, social enterprises, consultants – in other words, almost everyone who is interested in this space. Click here to read ...


Investing in democracy: the private sector’s role
Dina Sherif

Investing in democracy: the private sector’s role

Dina Sherif and Frederic Sicre
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

The revolutions that have taken place and continue to take place in the Arab region can be viewed as a caution to the world that systems lacking accountability, transparency and social justice are losing ground. The structure of the countries involved in the Arab Spring was flawed: political and socioeconomic systems, while empowering for a few, were disempowering for the majority. Now, as well as demanding their rights from governments, citizens also have a close eye on the private sector and the role it should be playing as transitions to democracy take place.

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Investors’ perspectives - Bridging the valley of death
Eoghan Mackie

Investors’ perspectives - Bridging the valley of death

Eoghan Mackie
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

A number of people writing about social investment have used the term ‘valley of death’, including Simon Desjardins, writing in Alliance in June 2011, who wrote of ‘the valley of death between concept stage and commercial funding that plagues the social enterprise sector globally’. The approach Challenges Worldwide offers to bridge this valley is a combination of business development and investment support for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

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GIFE - Brazilian donors to discuss new departures in social investment

01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

GIFE’s seventh annual conference, under the title ‘New Frontiers of Social Investment’, will be held next March in São Paulo. The event will explore how the need for innovation has brought new challenges to the sector. The conference theme and topics will form part of the Brazilian Social Investment Vision for 2020. Initiated last year, this process seeks to develop a relevant and legitimate sector embracing several topics, regions and communities, and supported by sustained and diversified investment.

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Luxembourg organizations launch centre of excellence for impact investing

01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

Banque de Luxembourg, along with a number of other organizations in Luxembourg’s finance and investment field, has launched the European Impact Investing Luxembourg Initiative (EIIL). The initiative builds on a survey commissioned last year which proposed the establishment of a centre of excellence for impact investing in Luxembourg and an approach to impact investing under three heads: knowledge, framework and products.

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Task force for a European Social Investment Facility

01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

Fiscal consolidation within the European Union means that a stronger social economy is required to deliver what the state can no longer do. A stronger and better integrated Europe-wide social investment market is needed to attract more private capital. Euclid Network and FEBEA (Fédération Européenne de Finances et Banques Ethiques et Alternatives) have therefore assembled a task force for a European Social Investment Facility (ESIF) to explore how the European Commission can most effectively use its limited financial resources to support social investment.

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SOCAP Europe gets down to business

Paul Cheng
01 September 2011
Alliance magazine

On 30 May 2011, the inaugural conference of SOCAP Europe took place in Amsterdam, at the site of the world’s first stock market at Beurs van Berlage. Over 650 individuals from the social investment world, representing some 50 countries, gathered together for three days to exchange ideas under the theme of ‘Moving Minds and Moving Money: bringing together people who are changing the way they act and the way we all think about investing’. Click here to read ...


Investors’ perspectives − Reflections on Bihar from a UK impact investor
Audrey Selian

Investors’ perspectives − Reflections on Bihar from a UK impact investor

Audrey Selian
01 September 2011
Alliance magazine

The June issue of Alliance was totally illuminating, even for a European-based impact investor whose focus is solely on India. Despite my familiarity with existing ‘impact investment’ opportunities in the country, I found the profiling of the state of Bihar extremely exciting and compelling.

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Investors’ perspectives − Bankrolling the emerging free press

Anna Reitman
01 September 2011
Alliance magazine

Shortly after Zimbabwe’s power-sharing agreement between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai a few years ago, citizens in the country were reintroduced to an independent daily newspaper – the first in seven years.

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World’s first publicly regulated stock exchange board established

01 September 2011
Alliance magazine

After many years and many efforts, the world’s first publicly regulated stock exchange board dedicated to social and impact investments – the iX – is now open to qualifying social and environmental purpose initiatives and impact investment funds seeking a listing in the public capital markets. The iX has received formal regulatory approval from the Financial Services Commission and will operate as a board of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) in collaboration with NeXii.

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