The Impact Investor (ePub)

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.