Impact Investing
Five Findings from New InSight White Paper
This morning we’re excited to release a new white paper that sizes the social impact investing private equity market in the United States at $4 billion. While $4 billion represents a very small segment (.5%) of the broader private equity market in the U.S. ($1 trillion) our findings demonstrate that social impact private equity investing in […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Funding for Impact Investing Research Grants and Fellowships Announced by InSight’s Initiative, IIPC
Exciting news from InSight: one of its key initiatives, the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative (IIPC), just announced the availability of funds for a new research grant and fellowship program. IIPC is a global community of researchers and policymakers who share knowledge and influence capital markets to support more effective impact investing. The research grant and […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Investing •
A Big Brazilian Step Forward for Impact Investing
Reflecting on the launch Wednesday of the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative, at the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) in Rio, we were struck by just how far impact investing has come — particularly because, at first glance, the notion that private capital might be harnessed to create intentional, targeted social and environmental impacts is relatively threatening […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
PCV Launches Impact Investing Policy Collaborative in Brazil
Today Beth Sirull, Ben Thornley, and Sarah Ritter of PCV and the Initiative for Responsible Investment launched the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative (IIPC) at the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Why Brazil? Well, this week PCV is playing host to a convening of researchers and policy makers from around the world for […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact Investing + Policy = Collaboration Needed
Ben Thornley, PCV’s Director of InSight, just wrote a fascinating article about Impact Investing and Public Policy for the Huffington Post. Read the full article below. “Utter the word “policy” in a crowd of impact investing types and watch the eyes roll. It’s understandable. The culture of impact investing is strongly influenced by the relentless […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Health Impact Bonds to Replace Health Care Services?
In their report entitled “Impact Investing in Sources of Health,” Maria Hernandez and S. Len Syme, researchers at UC Berkeley and Rick Brush from Collective Health, LLC, explore the possibility of using an impact investing vehicle, namely Health Impact Bonds, to improve health outcomes in a cost-effective and sustainable way. Over the past couple of […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Investing • Small Business Resources •
Ben Thornley’s Huffington Post Blog – Tom Steyer: Impact Investing Icon
Ben Thornley, Director of PCV InSight, posted a new blog to the Huffington Post focusing on Tom Steyer of Farallon Capital. Read on for Ben’s take on Tom Steyer and his significance within the field of Impact Investing in his blog titled, “Tom Steyer: Impact Investing Icon” and follow Ben at www.twitter.com/ImpactInSight. Before the current […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
A Special Announcement About Our GLE Project
Thanks to everyone who has supported the pilot of a Global Learning Exchange in 2014. This bold experiment has exceeded the expectations for what a multi-stakeholder exchange could contribute to the growth of the impact investing market when it was launched at the Social Impact Investment Forum in 2013. Unless core funding is secured for another stage […]
Jul 12, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Ben Thornley, Director of PCV InSight, on Impact Investing for Huffington Post
PCV’s own Ben Thornley, Director of PCV InSight, posted a new blog called “The Really Truly Transformative Potential of Impact Investing” for the Huffington Post this week. Read on below for Ben’s thoughts on the incredible potential of impact investing and follow Ben at www.twitter.com/ImpactInSight. “Money managers pay attention: Impact investing — investment for financial […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact Investor – Video Recap (Part 2)
As promised in part 1, here is the second installment of InSight’s video highlights from our launch event of The Impact Investor. The event marked the beginning of a two-year project to build data-driven and practitioner-guided knowledge for the rapidly growing field of impact investing, which we are undertaking along with our partners CASE at […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Impact Investor – Video Recap (Part 1)
Here at InSight we’re still sorting through all the incredible conversation from the launch of our new project – The Impact Investor. The launch took place in Oxford, UK before the Skoll World Forum, where over 80 impact investors participated in the dialogue that will inform and shape much of our research. We are undertaking […]
Jul 10, 2015 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
InSight at PCV Launches Global Research Initiative on Impact Investing
Last week at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, InSight, along with CASE at Duke University and ImpactAssests, launched their new global research initiative, “The Impact Investor: People and Practices Delivering Exceptional Financial and Social Returns”. The project, which has attracted generous funding from the Omidyar Network, The Annie E. Casey Foundation and RS Group […]