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From Philanthropy to Impact Investing: The Role of Women Investors in Asia

By Weina Li  There is a historical gender-bias in investment and finance, with women often considered “too soft” and “not enough returns-focused”, whereas their comparative strengths in leadership positions and their importance as key consumer is often overlooked. This explains the extremely low proportion of women investors across the globe, and especially in Asia. However, the trend is changing. This is in part due to the increasing number of female high net worth individuals; they are high breadwinners, entrepreneurs but also heirs of a considerable proportion of Asia’s wealth.

Impact Investing 2.0 and the Rise of Multilingual Teams: An Interview with Jed Emerson

By Marta Maretich, Chief Writer, Maximpact.com    Maximpact: At SOCAP13 you took turns with Cathy Clark, ofCASE  and Ben Thornley, of Pacific Community Ventures ,  to introduce different findings of your joint Impact Investing 2.0 report. You presented the part about “multilingual teams”.Why are multilingual teams so important to impact investing funds and why are they so interesting to you? Jed Emerson: This

World Vision Projects Ready for Investment

Are you looking to put your investment dollars towards improving the lives of children and communities? If so, this recent addition to the Maximpact deal-listing  portfolio may be of interest to you.   World Vision  is an international humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization currently seeking investment with its handful of different projects. The organization is dedicated to the sustained wellbeing of children, especially the most vulnerable. By working with

The IPCC Summary Report on Climate Change: What it Means for Impact Investing

On 27 September 2013, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the first of three volumes of its fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The long-awaited report summary emerged amid a flurry of media coverage and a volley of commentary, both pro and contra. Its main conclusions were clear, however: climate change is real, its effects are already measurable, and it is being caused by human activity. AR5 Summary Highlights · Human influence on the climate system is clear. This is evident in most regions of the globe. · Warming in the climate system is

Calling all Impact Investing and Sustainability Experts: Register Now!

Maximpact invites experts and consultants from all industries, positions and geographical regions  to register now as members of our exciting new project development area, Maximpact Eco. We are building a worldwide network of experts and consultants focused on delivering specialized services and online resources for impact and sustainable enterprises and projects. At the moment we are in the process of collecting early registrations, 

Better Names for Impact Investing (And Other Insights from Hazel Henderson)

by Marta Maretich Hazel Henderson has never really liked the term “impact investing”.  “All investments have impacts,” she told us. “I pointed this out to the authors of the original paper published by the Rockefeller Foundation . Some of these impacts include blowing the tops off mountains and spilling oil in the Gulf of Mexico!” Not mincing words is one of the characteristics that has made Henderson a thought leader in the ethical investing movement. Futurist, evolutionary economist, worldwide syndicated

Building Bridges Between Impact Investors and Sustainable Forestry

By Alexander Watson, CEO OpenForests My name is Alexander Watson, I am a forestry scientist with a background in Social Banking and Social Finance and founder of OpenForests , a consulting company with the mission to finance and develop social and biodiverse forestry projects.  THE CHALLENGE The annual worldwide deforestation is about 13 million hectares, predominantly in the tropics. We believe that reforestation is one opportunity to counter deforestation. At the same

Saving our Forests from the Effects of Climate Change

By Ana LaRue Most people are still navigating through the data of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report , but it’s overall message is clear: anthropogenic (or human-made) climate change is already taking its toll on the life on this planet. In a series of blogposts, Maximpact will be looking at what the IPCC’s findings mean for different parts of the impact investing sector. In the first of the series, we focus on

Weekly Deals: Investing in Communities

What do a youth start-up acceleration program, a book distributor serving children at the base of the economic pyramid and a rural village educational program focusing on sanitation have in common?  One: their initiatives provide alternatives to national and global corporate and government programs. Two: all three deals are listing on Maximpact  today.  Deal D000474:  This entrepreneur is organizing support for young entrepreneurs in Belgium. Their three month acceleration

One Year of Maximpact by Tom Holland

Maximpact.com has been in operation almost one year. And what a year it's been for impact investing and for us.  The last twelve months have seen impact investing—in fact all forms of social and sustainable investing—gain significant ground. We saw the Impact G8 in London and heard the buzz around impact grow louder. Some of the main infrastructure issues such as measurement and exits have begun to be addressed. The US has launched a huge impact investing initiative. Social Impact Bonds are beginning to prove their worth. And all over the world, new educational programs 

Cultivating Change: Why Agriculture Needs Impact Investing

By Marta Maretich  There’s a global food crisis looming, according to many commentators. The food price crisis of 2008 spooked world markets and gave us a taste of what may be to come in the future: commodity prices went through the roof and people in many parts of the world panicked. This lead to a reappraisal of food and agricultural policy in many quarters, spurring international aid organizations to action and attracting private investment to agriculture. This changed the agricultural investment landscape—but not enough.  There remains an urgent need for impact capital in agriculture

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