There is a systemic issue in impact investing that constantly resurfaces, from research papers to goals of foundations in the realm of impact investing: lack of infrastructure to help people identify and function as a part of the impact industry.
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing investment adviser and portfolio manager R. Paul Herman, pioneer of the HIP (Human Impact + Profit) methodology and author of The HIP Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World. Paul invented HIP in 2004 to connect investors seeking positive human, social and environmental impacts and seeking financial returns with investments designed to deliver those intended results. Paul shared his insights and thoughts on constructing an impact investing portfolio as well as his most practical solution for investors to start thinking about this process.
Let’s play a word association game.
I say: Angel Investor - what’s the first word that comes to mind?
Money? Investment opportunities? Startups?
On February 10th, at the conference and official launch of the New York Pipeline Fellows, the words that came to mind instead were: Women, Diversity and Impact.
Yesterday, I posted Part II of my interview (read Part I) of Antony Bugg-Levine, Managing Director of the Rockefeller Foundation, Board member of the Global Impact Investing Network and one of the thought leaders and influencers in impact investing. Here's Part III, wrapping up the interview with some reflections on the state of impact investing (and more!)
Yesterday, I posted Part I of my interview of Antony Bugg-Levine, Managing Director of the Rockefeller Foundation, Board member of the Global Impact Investing Network and one of the thought leaders and influencers in impact investing. Here's Part II, where he talks about his hopes for the book.
I recently had the privilege to speak with Antony Bugg-Levine, Managing Director of the Rockefeller Foundation, Board member of the Global Impact Investing Network and one of the thought leaders and influencers in impact investing. He leads the Foundation’s impact investing team that works to harness the capital and expertise of investors making “impact investments” that generate a social and financial return. This in an insider interview to his book, Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference. In our conversation, he shared key highlights in, as well his hopes for, the book.
“Deep and intertwined in our humanity, is a need to support and feel involvement in the kinds of projects and companies which we care about. Until the recent crowdfunding phenomena emerged, our more centralized and intermediated capital formation and funding mechanisms scarcely recognized the social power of crowds which form affinities around any kind of mission. Crowdfunding is a natural systemic response to fill this gap, and an expression of our collective human will. It is perhaps, one of the most powerful developments in our modern-day socio-economics, and promises both to transform the capital formation landscape and to offer an avenue for a creative and intellectual re-birth.” – Kevin Lawton, The Crowdfunding Revolution.
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