Impact Investing
CalPERS For California 2016 Report
The seventh annual report documenting the California Public Employees Retirement System’s $27.3 billion of investments in California as of June 30, 2016. The report provides an examination of the broad ancillary benefits of all CalPERS investments in California across the asset classes of public equity, fixed income, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure. CalPERS is […]
Jun 19, 2017 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Economically Targeted Investments (ETIs) by U.S. Pension Funds
U.S.-based public and private pension funds have been making Economically Targeted Investments (ETIs)—investments that generate societal benefits in addition to the investment return—since the 1960s. Over this time, pension funds have sought risk-adjusted returns for their plan’s participants and beneficiaries through investments in worker-friendly affordable housing, in-state businesses, infrastructure, and other projects. The practice of […]
Jun 14, 2017 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
What’s New In Impact Investing? May Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
May 26, 2017 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
What’s New In Impact Investing? April Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Apr 28, 2017 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
What’s New In Impact Investing? March Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Mar 31, 2017 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
What’s New In Impact Investing? February Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Feb 24, 2017 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
Invest Northwest Ten Year Performance Review
We are pleased to share our latest report: Invest Northwest: Ten-Year Final Performance Review. For ten years Pacific Community Ventures has worked with the Northwest Area Foundation (NWAF) and the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) to annually evaluate the social performance of Invest Northwest, a place-based mission-related private equity fund. Invest Northwest was created in 2004 […]
Feb 03, 2017 – Blog and News • Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
What’s New In Impact Investing? January Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made […]
Feb 02, 2017 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
What’s New In Impact Investing? December Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Dec 21, 2016 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
What’s New In Impact Investing? November Roundup
Impact investing is about using markets and money for social good. Impact investing is built on the belief that private capital can play a powerful role in solving the massive global challenges of our day, and that capital markets should work for good as well as profit. This vision is realized through investments made into […]
Nov 30, 2016 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing •
A First-Timer Experiencing Opportunity Finance Network’s 2016 Conference
This piece is from Justin Fier, Managing Director of InSight, our in-house impact investing consulting practice. Last month, multiple PCV colleagues of mine and I attended the CDFI industry’s premiere annual event, the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) Conference, held this year in Atlanta. As a newcomer to PCV — as well as the CDFI […]
Nov 29, 2016 – Impact Consulting • Impact Investing • PCV News •
Measuring The Social Outcomes Of Impact Investments
Pacific Community Ventures engages with a wide variety of constituents — small businesses, investors, volunteers, and policymakers — to create good jobs for working people and build an economy that works for everyone. So where does impact measurement fit in? To ensure we’re deploying every dollar and every hour of our time effectively, measurement is […]