The Impact Investor : Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism.
Ben. Thornley
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (388 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Key Practices and Drivers Underlying Impact Investing -- 1 Inside Collaborative Capitalism -- The Roots of Collaborative Capitalism -- The Social Role and Responsibility of Business -- The New Fiduciaries: Millennials and Entrepreneurs in the Lead -- Aligning Risk Mitigation and the Delivery of Better Outcomes -- The Collaborative Capitalism Pyramid -- Three Core Elements of Collaborative Capitalism -- Transparency -- Outcomes Orientation -- Attention to Constituency -- Putting It All Together: Collaborative Capitalism in Action -- Integrating an Outcomes Orientation into The California Endowment -- Constituent Alignment at Citi -- Creating an Investing Platform for Outcome-Driven Investors at Morgan Stanley -- Aligning "Outcome Buyers" Through Social Impact Bonds -- Transparency Through RSF Prime -- Stakeholders as Investors at Calvert Foundation -- Looking Ahead -- 2 Raising the Curtain on Impact Investing -- Sizing the Market -- Global Microfinance -- US Community Finance -- Economically Targeted Investment by US Public Pension Funds -- Green Bonds -- International Development -- Key Actors and Activities -- The Fund Perspective -- The Twelve Funds -- Aavishkaar: India Micro Venture Capital Fund -- ACCIÓN Texas Inc -- Bridges Ventures: Sustainable Growth Funds I and II -- Business Partners Limited: Southern African SME Risk Finance Fund -- Calvert Foundation: Community Investment Note -- Deutsche Bank: Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium I -- Elevar Equity: Unitus Equity Fund and Elevar Equity II -- Huntington Capital: Huntington Capital Fund II, LP -- The W.K. Kellogg Foundation: Mission Driven Investments -- MicroVest: MicroVest I, LP.. - Invest Strategically -- Review Collectively -- 6 Multilingual Leadership -- New Skillsets for New Leaders -- Multilingual Leadership in the Research -- Multilingual Leadership as Cross-Disciplinary and Collaborative -- Defining Multilingual Leadership for Impact Investing -- Able to Think Critically -- Able to Focus on Ends Rather Than Means -- Able to See the Forest-and the Trees -- Nonideological -- Entrepreneurial -- Financially Savvy -- Capable of Exceptionally Strong Communication -- Willing to Take Risks -- The Multilingual Leader: From Individual to Team to Firm -- The Individual -- The Multilingual Team -- The Institution -- Building a Multilingual Team: Acquiring Multilingual Capacity -- The Multilingual Leadership Tool Kit -- Learn -- Adapt -- Act -- Beyond Impact Investing -- Part Three: Looking Ahead: Trends and Challenges -- 7 The Writing on the Wall -- 8 Concluding Reflections -- Ongoing Challenges for the Field's Development -- Early Development -- Definitions and Terms -- Metrics, Measurement, and Evaluation -- Postmodern Portfolio Theory and Total Portfolio Management -- Defining Roles and Responsibilities -- Stakeholder Voice -- Using the Right Tool for the Right Problem -- The Road Ahead -- Impact Investor Resource Guide -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Index -- End User License Agreement.. - RSF Social Finance: RSF Social Investment Fund -- SEAF: Sichuan SME Investment Fund, LLC -- Performance Numbers -- The Impact Investing Fund Landscape -- First Responders -- Solution Specialists -- Early-Stage Innovators -- Scale Agents -- Part Two: Four Key Elements of Successful Impact Investing -- 3 Impact DNA -- A Means to an End -- The Need for Clarity -- The Impact Value Chain and Theories of Change -- Getting Everyone Aligned -- From First to Last: Measurement and Reporting -- Bringing It Together: Sequencing the DNA of Impact Investors -- Mission First and Last Approaches -- Structural -- Strategic -- Investor Driven -- Thematic -- The Mission First and Last Tool Kit -- Gaining Clarity -- Aligning Internally -- Aligning Externally -- Tracking and Reporting Impact -- 4 Symbiosis as Strategy -- The Practice of Policy Symbiosis -- Public Sector Innovation in Alignment with the Private Sector -- The Public Case for Impact Investing -- Foundational -- Financial -- Regulatory -- Advocacy Driven -- Opportunistic -- The Policy Symbiosis Tool Kit -- Acquire Knowledge -- Build Partnerships -- Be Visionary -- Proceed with Integrity -- The Five London Principles -- Clarity of Purpose -- Stakeholder Engagement -- Market Stewardship -- Institutional Capacity -- Universal Transparency -- 5 The New Deal -- The Terrain for the New Deal -- Myths of Catalytic Capital -- Myth 1: Catalytic Capital Is Concessionary or Subsidy-Based -- Myth 2: Catalytic Capital Will Distort Markets -- Myth 3: Providers of Catalytic Capital Are Always Philanthropic or Governmental Organizations -- Myth 4: Philanthropic and Government Organizations Only Provide Concessionary and Subsidized Catalytic Capital -- Four Purposes of Catalytic Capital -- Sustaining -- Seeding -- Risk-Reducing -- Signaling -- The Catalytic Capital Tool Kit -- Know How -- Know Who and Why -- Think Expansively.. - Your money can change the world The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism offers precise details on what, exactly, impact investing entails, embodied in the experiences and best and proven practices of some of the world's most successful impact investors, across asset classes, geographies and areas of impact. The book discusses the parameters of impact investing in unprecedented detail and clarity, providing both context and tools to those eager to engage in the generational shift in the way finance and business is being approached in the new era of Collaborative Capitalism. The book presents a simple thesis with clarity and conviction: "Impact investing can be done successfully. This is what success looks like, and this is what it requires." With much-needed lessons for practitioners, the authors view impact investing as a harbinger of a new, more "multilingual" (cross-sector), transparent, and accountable form of economic leadership. The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism serves as a resource for a variety of players in finance and business, including: Investors: It demonstrates not only the types of investments which can be profitable and impactful, but also details best practices that, with roots in impact investing, will increasingly play a role in undergirding the success of all investment strategies. Wealth advisors/financial services professionals: With unprecedented detail on the innovative structures and strategies of impact investing funds, the book provides guidance to financial institutions on how to incorporate these investments in client portfolios. Foundations: The book explores the many catalytic and innovative ways for for-profit and non-profit investors to partner, amplifying the potential social and environmental impacts of philanthropic. - spending and market-rate endowment investment. Business students: By including strategies for making sound impact investments based on detailed case studies, it provides concrete lessons and explores the skills required to enhance prospects for success as a finance and business professional. Policy makers: Reinforcing the urgency of creating a supportive and enabling environment for impact investing, the book demonstrates ways policy has already shaped the sector, and suggests new ways for policymakers to support it. Corporate leaders: The book includes essential advice on the way business is and must be responding to a new generation of Millennial clients and customers, with unique insights into a form of value creation that is inherently more collaborative and outcomes-driven.
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