The GIIN's Investors' Council is where leading impact investors gather. Comprising asset owners and asset managers with diverse interests across sectors and geographies, the Investors' Council provides a forum for experienced impact investors to strengthen the practice of impact investing.
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Impact Investing leaders and GIIN staff tackle important industry issues at the 2016 GIIN Investors’ Council Annual Meeting.
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Impact Investing leaders and GIIN staff tackle important industry issues at the 2016 GIIN Investors’ Council Annual Meeting.
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Impact Investing leaders and GIIN staff tackle important industry issues at the 2016 GIIN Investors’ Council Annual Meeting.
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Impact Investing leaders and GIIN staff tackle important industry issues at the 2016 GIIN Investors’ Council Annual Meeting.
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Impact Investing leaders and GIIN staff tackle important industry issues at the 2016 GIIN Investors’ Council Annual Meeting.
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Impact Investing leaders and GIIN staff tackle important industry issues at the 2016 GIIN Investors’ Council Annual Meeting.
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Impact Investing leaders and GIIN staff tackle important industry issues at the 2016 GIIN Investors’ Council Annual Meeting.
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Impact Investing leaders and GIIN staff tackle important industry issues at the 2016 GIIN Investors’ Council Annual Meeting.
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Impact Investing leaders and GIIN staff tackle important industry issues at the 2016 GIIN Investors’ Council Annual Meeting.
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Accion
Accion is a global nonprofit dedicated to building a financially inclusive world. Accion works to create economic opportunity by connecting people to the financial tools they need to improve their lives. A world pioneer in microfinance, Accion was founded as a community development organization in 1961 and issued its first microloan in 1973. Over time, Accion has helped to build 63 microfinance institutions (MFIs) reaching millions of clients in 32 countries on four continents—Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S. By building strong MFIs, pushing the frontier of financial services through innovation and investment, and developing high industry standards that center on the needs of clients, Accion is striving to reach the nearly three billion people worldwide who still seek these crucial financial services.
Accion provides early-stage equity, quasi-equity financing, and loan guarantees to help grow MFIs sustainably and support a financial ecosystem that will radically enhance the efficiency, reach, and scope of financial services at the base of the economic pyramid. Accion provides financing and credit enhancements through four vehicles. Frontier Investments Group is an early and growth stage impact investing fund focused on investing in new technologies and disruptive innovation that can enhance the way financial services are delivered to the un/underbanked. Venture Lab, founded in 2012, is dedicated to providing patient seed capital and management support to innovative financial inclusion startups (earlier stage than Frontier Investments), fostering experimentation and promoting business models that improve financial access for people at the base of the pyramid. The Gateway Fund is a private equity fund that makes direct investments in MFIs to generate a social and financial return. Finally, the Global Bridge Fund is a loan guarantee fund that serves as a conduit between socially responsible investors and microentrepreneurs in the field. The Bridge Fund extends loan guarantees that support the access of MFIs to local capital markers, expanding their funding sources and enabling their growth and development.
Read a profile of an Accion impact investment >
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Acumen
Acumen is changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies, leaders and ideas. We invest patient capital in businesses whose products and services are enabling the poor to transform their lives. Founded by Jacqueline Novogratz in 2001, Acumen has $130m deployed into more than 120 companies across Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the United States. We are also developing a global community of emerging leaders with the knowledge, skills and determination to create a more inclusive world.
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The American Heart Association (AHA)
The American Heart Association (AHA) is a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives. Dedicated to ensuring equitable health in all communities, our impact investment strategy complements the AHA's lifesaving work of nearly 100 years by addressing nonmedical, social, economic, and environmental barriers that cause many people to develop heart disease and have shorter, unhealthier lives. The AHA’s Impact Investment Group is expanding the pool of changemakers by supporting initiatives developed within communities by entrepreneurs and organizations actively working to break down social and economic barriers to health. The Social Impact Funds support evidence-based,sustainable, and scalable solutions led by small businesses focused on economic empowerment, food security and healthy food access, and access to quality healthcare. Since the Funds’ initial community investments in 2019, the AHA Impact Investment Group has funded more than 100 social enterprises operating within under-resourced communities across the country.
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Anthos Fund & Asset Management (Anthos) provides values-based asset management and investment advisory services to like-minded asset owners. Anthos’ clients benefit from tailored expert management across equities, fixed income, real estate, private equity, alternative investments and outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) services. Based on a tradition of purpose, excellence, collaboration, client focus and passion, Anthos has a long-term track record of outperforming benchmarks while contributing to the common good.
Anthos is part of COFRA Holding. Family-owned for six generations, COFRA is united around a common mission – to amaze customers and be a force for good. The enterprise cares deeply about people and the communities it serves, striving to have a lasting, positive impact on society and the environment.
Anthos is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. The organisation has responsible investing embedded across its investment process and it is a pioneer in the field of impact investing. Anthos is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and it has a license by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM).
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Established in 1948 and based in Baltimore, MD, the Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation dedicated to building better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation provides grants and investment capital to support innovative, cost-effective responses to children and families’ needs. The Foundation’s grants support work at the state, city, and local levels. “Social investing” is part of the Casey Foundation’s broader strategy to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families. In 2002, the Foundation established a formal Social Investments program, and twice increased the allocation of the endowment dedicated to social investments, to USD 100 million in 2004 and to USD 125 million in 2010. Today, the Foundation manages a range of social investments, including program-related and mission-related investments that focus on family economic success and community change.
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Apollo Global Management
Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. We seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three business strategies: yield, hybrid and opportunistic. Through our investment activity across our fully integrated platform, we serve the retirement income and financial return needs of our clients, and we offer innovative capital solutions to businesses. Our patient, creative, knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of March 31, 2021, Apollo had approximately $461 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.
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Australian Ethical Investment
Australian EthicalisAustralia'slargest and original 100%ethical investment managerbased in Sydney. Australian Ethical has $8.37 billion in funds under management and over 113,000 clients (managed fund investors and funded superannuation members) as of 31December2022. The company's Australian Shares Fund has outperformed the benchmark in the long term.Australian Ethical is one of the fastest growing super funds in the country by number of members. The company was a foundingB Corpin Australia, and the first publicly listed company in Australia to achieve B Corp status. It was awarded the B Corp "Best for the World" ranking it in the top 10% of B Corps globally in various categories in the years 2015 through 2019, 2021 and 2022.
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AXA Investment Managers
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) is a global asset manager with assets under management (AUM) of €759 billion. We believe Responsible and Impact Investing can deliver sustainable, long term value for clients and create a positive impact on society. This has underpinned our work in developing investment solutions that incorporate ESG and impact considerations across all asset classes. In particular, we are focused on using investor capital to fund innovative solutions that empower underserved populations and address the critical environmental challenges of our time. AXA IM invested as early as 1998 in the RI and Impact space with the launch of a fund tackling unemployment by investing in companies creating sustainable jobs in Europe; highlighting our philosophy that the creation of positive social impact can work in lock-step with the generation of long-term financial returns for investors. Our evolution continued with the launch of the AXA Impact Investing Programme in 2013 which targets the delivery of market rate financial returns alongside the generation of intentional and measurable impact returns. Our Impact Programme focuses on meeting the needs of underserved populations in priority areas including financial inclusion, access to healthcare and education; and also provides capital to impact solutions that protect the planet and improve resilience to climate change.
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Big Society Capital
Big Society Capital’s mission is to improve the lives of people in the UK by connecting investment to social enterprises and charities that are creating measurable impact. We have a special focus on providing homes for people in need; supporting communities to improve lives; and early action to prevent problems. We know that investment can help social enterprises and charities accomplish more, so we bring together our investment capital, our expertise and our network of partners to make it easier to use social impact investment. We build partnerships with other investors, to make catalytic investments into funds, fund managers and social banks. To date, we have made over £1.7bn of new capital available to organisations with a social mission. Of this total, £524m has come directly from Big Society Capital and £1.2bn from other investors. Big Society Capital was launched in April 2012 as a private sector company, independent of Government, with the Big Society Trust as the guardian of the organisation’s mission. Big Society Capital’s objective is to act as a social investment wholesaler and generally to promote the development of the social investment marketplace in the UK. It also seeks to achieve and maintain financial sustainability over the longer term. It is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
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British International Investment (BII)
British International Investment is the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor with a mission to help solve the biggest global development challenges by investing patient, flexible capital to support private sector growth and innovation. They invest to create more productive, sustainable and inclusive economies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, enabling people in those countries to build better lives for themselves and their communities. BII invests between £1.5 and £2 billion every year in green infrastructure, technology and other sectors that need our capital the most.
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Calvert Impact Capital
Calvert Impact Capital invests to create a more equitable and sustainable world. As a non-profit investment firm, Calvert Impact Capital raises capital from investors to finance intermediaries and funds that are investing in communities left out of traditional capital markets. In their 22-year history, Calvert Impact Capital has mobilized nearly $2 billion of investor capital. Individuals and institutions are invited to invest through Calvert Impact Capital's Community Investment Note and syndication service. The Note is available online or through brokerage firms, starting from a minimum of $20, with interest rates ranging from 1-4%. To date, the Note has maintained a 100% return on both principal and interest to investors. The syndication service is available to accredited investors looking to participate directly in impact investment opportunities.
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Capricorn Investment Group
One of the largest mission-aligned firms in the world, Capricorn Investment Group was born from a belief that sustainable investment practices can enhance risk-adjusted returns. Underlying this investment approach is a deep desire to demonstrate the huge investment potential that resides in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. The firm has grown to manage approximately $10 billion in multi-asset class portfolios for families, foundations and institutional investors, and has offices in New York City and Palo Alto.
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Community Investment Management
Community Investment Management (CIM) is an institutional impact investment manager that provides strategic debt capital to demonstrate and scale responsible innovation in lending for underserved communities. CIM seeks to deliver positive social impact by partnering with innovative alternative credit providers offering responsible and transparent financial solutions to underserved communities including small businesses, students, and low-income households.
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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private family foundation created in 1964 and guided by some of the same innovative approaches that helped transform a small electronics shop in a garage into one of the world's leading technology companies. The Foundation, based in Los Altos, CA, invests in issues its founders cared about most, including conserving and restoring the earth's natural systems, improving the lives of children, advancing reproductive health, and investing in its local community.
Since 1980, the Foundation has made a diverse array of program-related investments (PRIs) to extend its impact, encompassing all of the Foundation's program areas. The Foundation currently has a USD 180 million allocation for this purpose, which is available for investments that advance specific programmatic strategies of the Foundation, while maintaining preservation of its capital to serve future needs. The Foundation has made loans, guarantees, and equity investments. It has the ability to make both PRIs and other types of mission-related investments from its USD 180 million capital allocation; to date all of its investments have been structured as PRIs as the most suitable tool to achieve its programmatic objectives.
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Deutsche Bank/DWS
Deutsche Bank AG is an international commercial and investment bank with headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. The bank operates in 76 countries and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, and the emerging markets.
Deutsche Bank’s impact investing activities are concentrated in community development and microfinance, and are carried out by the bank’s New York City-based Community Development Finance Group. Over the last 16 years, Deutsche Bank has placed over USD 2 billion of social capital, recognizing less than USD 11 million in write-offs. In the U.S., Deutsche Bank has invested more than USD 1.2 billion in community development, which includes affordable housing, green real estate, new business development, and support services. Internationally, Deutsche Bank has provided loans, sub-debt, guarantees, and other financial products to microcredit institutions since 1997 and currently manages six microfinance funds totaling over USD 200 million. In addition, Deutsche Bank has a community development loan and investment portfolio of USD 550 million. Separately, the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation has an USD 10.1 million program-related investment portfolio, which supports social enterprises in education, housing, environment, and community development throughout the world.
DWS is a global asset manager with over USD 900 billion in AUM and a longstanding impact investments team with a track record of more than 25 years, deploying greater than USD 1.5 billion across private debt and private equity. The team's focus is on climate change solutions, energy transition, sustainable agriculture, and financial inclusion. They manage five funds amounting to approximately USD 800 million AUM as of March 2023, including private equity, private debt, project finance-focused funds, and corporate supply chain solutions.
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Emerson Collective
We are a multi-stage venture team focused on accelerating the growth of companies positively impacting the world. We believe in capital as a tool for good. Investing from pre-seed to IPO, we drive venture-scale returns with the added lens of impact. Our commitment to mission-aligned founders is reflected in holistic support services and access to expertise across the business, non-profit, and policy worlds, as well as in our lasting relationships—we invest for long-term change, not short-term returns.
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Enterprise Community Partners
Enterprise Community Partners is a leading provider of the development capital and expertise it takes to create decent, affordable homes and rebuild communities. For 30 years, Enterprise has introduced neighborhood solutions through public-private partnerships with financial institutions, governments, community organizations, and others that share its vision to create vibrant communities. Enterprise has raised and invested more than USD 13.9 billion in equity, grants, and loans to help build or preserve nearly 300,000 affordable rental and for-sale homes. Enterprise leads research and undertakes policy advocacy work in U.S. community development and investment in affordable housing, green retrofits, and community facilities across the U.S with support from its two subsidiaries Enterprise Community Investment and Enterprise Community Loan Fund (ECLF). Enterprise Community Partners’ two subsidiaries lead its impact investing activities. The first, Enterprise Community Investment, is a financial intermediary that structures investments for institutional investors to finance affordable housing, community facilities, and commercial development in economically distressed communities. Additionally, it provides long-term multifamily mortgage financing, and is a leading syndicator of Low Income Housing Tax Credit equity and a top recipient of New Markets Tax Credits . Annually, Enterprise Community Investment finances and develops nearly USD 2.3 billion in high-quality affordable housing and related community facilities. ECLF, the second subsidiary, is a U.S. Treasury Department-certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that offers predevelopment and acquisition loans, green retrofit financing, and construction or bridge loans to developers and nonprofit organizations. In September 2011, ECLF launched the Enterprise Community Impact Note, a fixed income product with a minimum investment of USD 5,000 to help finance affordable housing and community development projects. In partnership with other financing organizations, ECLF manages several local funds, including regional Transit-Oriented Development Funds and the New York Acquisition Fund.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was established in 1991 with a mandate to assist countries in central and eastern Europe in their transition towards sustainable market oriented economies, and to promote private and entrepreneurial initiative. It has expanded in recent years to support transition in more in 38 countries, which now includes Mongolia, Turkey and five countries from the southern and eastern Mediterranean region (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia). The EBRD is a AAA rated international financial institution owned by 66 countries and two international institutions (the EU and the EIB), it has a capital base of €30 billion and has invested over €115 billion in more than 5000 debt and equity projects to date (more than €9 billion annually in each of the last 3 years and €9.7 billion in 2017). In 2017, 43% of the Bank’s investment volume supported its Green Economy Transition initiative, making the EBRD a leader in climate finance amongst the MDBs. Over 30% of the Bank’s 2518 staff work from 43 local offices across its region.
The EBRD invests in bankable projects and engages in policy reform dialogue with its recipient countries to support their transition to sustainable well-functioning markets along six ‘qualities’ that make up its revised transition concept: Green, Inclusive, Well-Governed, Integrated, Resilient and Competitive.
The Bank offers co-investment opportunities for investors seeking exposure to emerging market assets that offer tangible impact, commercial returns, modest volatility and rigorous attention to environmental, social and governance safeguards. The Bank engages with impact investors notably via its Treasury operations (EBRD’s Green Bonds and Social Bonds), Equity investments (both direct and through Funds) and Loan Syndications activities. It also welcomes partnership with philanthropic entities and further exploration of addressing market “gaps” surrounding investable opportunities, structuring, monitoring, measuring and reporting on results.
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EQT
EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of almost three decades of delivering consistent and attractive returns across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. EQT today has EUR 77 billion in assets under management across 36 active funds within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets.
With its roots in the Wallenberg family’s entrepreneurial mindset and philosophy of long-term ownership, EQT is guided by a set of strong values and a distinct corporate culture. EQT manages and advises funds and vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to future-proof companies, generate attractive returns and make a positive impact with everything EQT does.
The EQT AB Group comprises EQT AB (publ) and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, which include general partners and fund managers of EQT funds as well as entities advising EQT funds. EQT has offices in 23 countries across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas and has more than 1,300 employees.
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Fiduciary Trust International
Fiduciary Trust International is a wealth management firm founded in 1931 with a singular focus on growing and protecting wealth through generations. We work closely with individuals, families and institutions to build and manage personalized investment portfolios, and to develop estate plans that extend wealth to future generations.
The firm’s impact investing practice aligns our clients’ values with their long-term risk/return objectives. We have more than a decade of experience constructing comprehensive and customized portfolio solutions across a variety of themes, including climate action; economic opportunity; and diversity, equity & inclusion.
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Finance in Motion
Finance in Motion is a global impact asset manager focused exclusively on micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) finance and green finance, such as for climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources. With nearly USD 2.9 billion in AuM, the company develops and advises impact investment funds with the primary goal of achieving significant economic, social and environmental impact in low and middle income countries. Backed by an international team of more than 250 staff based in 17 offices, Finance in Motion has a strong market presence in the regions of Southeast Europe, the Caucasus, Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Finance in Motion has become a leader in structuring multi-layered blended finance funds where public monies serve as a risk cushion for private impact investors. Currently, the company advises five blended finance funds serving more than 30 countries: the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), the SANAD Fund for MSME, the Green for Growth Fund (GGF), the eco.business Fund, and the Arbaro Fund.
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FMO
FMO is the Dutch development bank founded in 1970. As a leading impact investor, FMO supports sustainable private sector growth in emerging and frontier markets by empowering entrepreneurs to build a better world. FMO believes that a strong private sector leads to economic and social development, empowering people to employ their skills and improve their quality of life.
FMO focuses on three sectors with high development impact and attractive investment opportunities: financial institutions, renewable energy, and agribusiness, food & water.
FMO also deploys capital through these government funds:
-Access to Energy Fund which promotes access to energy services;
-MASSIF which supports financial services for MSMEs through financial intermediaries; and the
-Infrastructure Development Fund to support private investments in large scale infrastructure projects
With a 45-year+ track record and a total portfolio of EUR 9.0 billion committed to private debt and private equity investments in more than 90 countries, FMO demonstrates that impact and return go hand in hand. FMO is one of the larger bilateral private sector development banks globally and has a high quality profile. FMO is rated triple-A by Standard & Poor’s and Fitch, and rated as Prime by oekom and as Industry leader by Sustainalytics.
In 2012 FMO created it subsidiary FMO Investment Management. It is a licensed investment firm through which investors can get access to FMO’s deal flow in sustainable emerging market investments. By joining forces we scale up our contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Fondaction
Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund base in Québec, Canada. Fondaction distinguishes itself through its investments, which are aimed at supporting, promoting and encouraging sustainable development. It manages assets in excess of $2 billion collected as retirement savings from more than 170,000 shareholders.
Fondaction supports the development of more than 1,200 SMEs, many of which are social economy enterprises. It helps create and maintain jobs and reduce inequalities, and contributes to the fight against climate change.
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Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization. For more than half a century it has worked with courageous people on the frontlines of social change worldwide, guided by its mission to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. With headquarters in New York, the Foundation has offices in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The Ford Foundation began making program-related investments (PRIs) in 1968, and has committed more than USD 650 million in PRIs since then. The Ford Foundation recently developed a new line of work on impact investing. Through the strategic use of grants and impact investments, Ford seeks to expand the ability of capital markets to promote measurable social and environmental returns while also achieving financial returns. The grant-based element of the strategy focuses on strengthening the infrastructure of the impact investment market, supporting public policies that help the impact investment marketplace grow and mature, and building awareness about benefits of and approaches to impact investing. The investment-based element of the strategy, in development, focuses on using investments to advance impact investing as a practice, be a catalytic source of capital to leverage other investors, and achieve demonstrated progress on social justice. Ford currently manages a USD 280 million PRI allocation.
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GAWA Capital
GAWA Capital Partners is an impact investing fund manager promoting the socioeconomic development of vulnerable communities in emerging markets by investing in the intersection of financial inclusion, agriculture, and climate. GAWA applies investment strategies which seek to drivetransformational change by supporting social enterprises that solvethe market failures that lead to issues such as poverty or climate change. Impact is both measured and actively managed, and investments are accompanied by a Technical Assistance facility which truly enables tangible social impact.
Founded in 2009, GAWA has raised more than $200 million and has pioneered the creation of the impact investing sector in Spain. GAWA's latest fund, Huruma, is the first example ofblended financein Spain, enjoying the support of the European Union and the Spanish Government
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Heron Foundation
Heron was created in 1992 to help people and communities lift themselves out of poverty. Today, the foundation is focused on building a better economy in the United States, one in which reliable employment and income are available to every willing worker or household. The New York-based foundation aims to deploy its entire endowment towards that mission, and invests all of its assets through a single capital deployment office, removing the traditional foundation’s operating distinction between investments and grantmaking.
Heron seeks investment opportunities in enterprises with a track record of positive social and financial returns. Portfolio companies and organizations increase and maintain reliable employment, advance systematic innovations to help communities be resilient to the changing nature of work, and contribute to society in a way that leaves everyone better off. Heron Foundation’s capital is most commonly used to support an enterprise’s growth, or to support a change of business model that improves, preserves, or sustains an enterprise in order to increase employment and livelihood for people in the community. The foundation invests in direct debt and equity, and also invests in bonds and fixed income securities, private equity, and public equity through active managers. As of February 2013, Heron has committed approximately 40 percent of its USD 260 million endowment — or USD 90 million — to program-related investments and mission-related investments to date.
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Inter-American Development Bank Group
Inter-American Development Bank: The Inter-American Development Bank is devoted to improving lives. Established in 1959, the IDB is a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB also conducts cutting-edge research and provides policy advice, technical assistance and training to public and private sector clients throughout the region. Access our virtual tour.
IDB Invest: IDB Invest, a member of the IDB Group, is a multilateral development bank committed topromoting the economic development of its member countries in Latin America and theCaribbean through the private sector. IDB Invest finances sustainable companies andprojects to achieve financial results and maximize economic, social, and environmentaldevelopment in the region. With a portfolio of $13.1 billion in asset management and 385clients in 25 countries, IDB Invest provides innovative financial solutions and advisoryservices that meet the needs of its clients in a variety of industries. Access our virtual tour.
IDB Lab: IDB Lab is the innovation laboratory of the IDB Group, the leading source of development finance and expertise for improving lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. The purpose of IDB Lab is to drive innovation for inclusion in the region, mobilizing financing, knowledge, and connections to test early-stage private sector solutions with the potential to transform the lives of vulnerable populations affected by economic, social, and environmental conditions. Since 1993, IDB Lab has approved more than US$ 2 billion in projects deployed across 26 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Access our virtual tour.
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International Finance Corporation (IFC)
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector. Established in 1956, IFC is owned by 184 member countries with offices in nearly 100 countries. IFC’s vision is that people should have the opportunity to escape poverty and improve their lives. IFC addresses development challenges in emerging markets through direct investments and advisory services to firms. IFC also works at a policy level to improve business environments and set standards of social and environmental practice.
As of June 30, 2012, IFC had a committed portfolio of USD 45.3 billion, and in fiscal year 2012 it invested 15.5 billion in 576 projects. IFC’s financial products and investment services include loans, syndicated loans, equity finance, structured finance, risk management products, local currency financing, and trade finance. Through the IFC Asset Management Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of IFC, the IFC raises funds targeted at large institutional investors interested in increasing their exposure to emerging markets. These funds include the IFC Capitalization Fund; the IFC African, Latin American, and Caribbean Fund; IFC Russian Bank Capitalization Fund; and the Africa Capitalization Fund. All IFC investments adopt the IFC Performance Standards and corresponding performance indicators which reflect the IFC’s commitment to sustainability and which are intended to identify social and environmental impact and risks for each investment.
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IFU
IFU- the Investment Fund for Developing Countries is a Danish impact investor contributing to green, just and inclusive societies as well as supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. IFU provides risk capital to companies operating in developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and parts of Europe. Investments are made on commercial terms in the form of equity, loans and guarantees. IFU has co-invested in over 1,300 companies in more than 100 developing countries and emerging markets. Capital under management is EUR 2.1 billion. Read more at www.ifu.dk
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a global financial services firm with assets of USD 2 trillion. Operating in more than 60 countries, the firm is a leader in investment banking, consumer financial services, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. J.P. Morgan's Social Finance business launched in 2007 to serve the growing market for impact investments in direct response to client interest and the increasing recognition that innovative business models can complement limited public sector and philanthropic resources by delivering market-based solutions to achieve sustainable and scalable social and environmental impact. The group publishes research to provide thought leadership to the market, commits J.P. Morgan capital to impact investments, and provides investment services to its clients.
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Founded in 1975, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (MacArthur) is an independent private foundation based in Chicago, United States, with offices in India, Mexico, Nigeria, and Russia. The Foundation manages over USD 5.8 billion in assets and is focused on improving society through arts and culture, community and economic development, conservation and sustainable development, and digital media and learning. MacArthur provides grants and loans to organizations based both in the United States and abroad through four programs: International Programs, U.S. Programs, Media, Culture and Special Initiatives, and the MacArthur Fellows Program. For three decades, MacArthur's creatively designed program-related investments (PRIs) have furthered the impact of its US and international programs, including a major initiative dedicated to preserving US affordable rental housing, and other efforts focused on community development, health, education and conservation. Today, MacArthur makes PRIs and mission-related investments through a dedicated USD 300 million portfolio that provides debt, equity and credit enhancement to more than 100 NGOs, public-private partnerships, intermediaries and mission-driven enterprises.
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The Kresge Foundation
Founded in 1924, The Kresge Foundation (Kresge) is a private, national foundation headquartered in Michigan, U.S. The Foundation manages over USD 3 billion in assets and is focused on expanding opportunities in America’s cities through its seven programs: Arts and Culture, Community Development, Detroit, Education, Environment, Health, and Human Services. It provides funding to organizations through operating support grants, project support grants, and program-related investments (PRIs). Kresge also seeks to attract capital from other sources to strengthen and improve the quality of life of children and adults in underserved American communities.
Historically known for awarding challenge grants to support new construction of facilities (such as libraries, hospitals, schools, museums, and community centers) and renovation projects, Kresge expanded its funding methods to include investment tools in 2007. Through its Social Investment Practice, the Foundation makes PRIs in the form of loans, deposits, equity, and guarantees to support the needs of low-income individuals and communities not well served by the private finance sector. Kresge often works with partners such as community development finance institutions to advance its programmatic objectives rather than by funding programs or organizations directly. As of December 31, 2013, Kresge managed a PRI portfolio of USD 67 million across 41 active commitments, supporting areas such as healthcare, affordable housing, community development, and human services.
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LeapFrog Investments
LeapFrog invests in healthcare, financial services and climate solutions businesses in high-growth global markets. Its companies deliver distinctive impact and robust returns, growing on average 27 per cent a year. LeapFrog companies now reach 422 million people in 30 countries. The firm has raised billions of dollars from global institutional investors, including a US$500m recent commitment by Temasek to LeapFrog and its growth equity funds. LeapFrog was ranked by Fortune as one of the top five Companies to Change the World, the first private investment firm ever listed. www.leapfroginvest.com.
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LGT Capital Partners
LGT Capital Partners is a leading alternative investment specialist with over USD 60 billion in assets under management and more than 550 institutional clients in 39 countries. An international team of over 500 professionals is responsible for managing a wide range of investment programs focusing on private markets, liquid alternatives and multi-asset class solutions. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon (SZ), Switzerland, the firm has offices in New York, Dublin, London, Paris, Vaduz, Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney.
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Lightrock
Lightrock is a global private equity platform investing in sustainable businesses built by purpose-driven entrepreneurs, committed to innovation for systemic change at scale. Since 2007, Lightrock has invested in companies that pursue scalable and tech-driven business models around the key impact themes of people, planet, and productivity/tech for good. Lightrock’s portfolio includes more than 90 high-growth companies, supported by over 100 professionals based in 6 offices across Europe, Latin America, India and Africa. Lightrock is backed by the Princely House of Liechtenstein and LGT, the international private banking and asset management group.
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Lok Capital
Lok Capital is an equity investor with a track record of achieving superior market rate returns while investing in impact sectors of financial inclusion, sustainability & climate, healthcare, and food & agriculture in India. Lok was established in 2004 and has successfully raised USD 205 mn across 3 funds deployed into 37 investments and 20 profitable exits, till date. Lok Capital has benefited from the long-standing association of the co-founders, Vishal Mehta, Venky Natarajan and Donald Peck who have been together for the last 15 years. More recently, Lok Capital has strengthened its leadership by promoting Priyamvada Ramkumar as a Partner and adding Hari Krishnan and Vignesh Ramanujam as new Partners. Hari and Vignesh bring in significant experience in tech investing in India. Lok’s LPs have included marquee global DFIs and impact-oriented institutions such as CDC, FMO, Proparco, IFC, Partners Group Impact and Nuveen amongst others.
Financial inclusion has been a key strategic focus for Lok with evolution from MFI models to newer age models such as MSME lending, supply chain financing, affordable housing, insurance and fintech. Amongst other sectors, sustainability models that reduce climate risks, healthcare models that improve access to underserved segments, food & agriculture that benefits producers via integrated supply chains are focus areas for Lok. Going forward, Lok is excited about the role of technology in impact-oriented businesses as a catalyst to democratized scale across a digitally connected India.
Beyond providing capital, Lok engages deeply with its investee companies via nominees at the Board level as well as ongoing operational and strategic support. Lok also funds technical assistance projects for capacity building objectives.Lok's team is spread across Chennai, Gurugram and Bangalore withinvestments pan-India.
Lok is currently raising its fourth fund for early to growth stage impact investments into technology driven companies focused in the Indian market.
For more on Lok Capital, please visithttp://www.lokcapital.com/
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Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies (MACP) encompasses three grantmaking entities whose collective assets place it among the 10 largest philanthropies in the United States. The Philanthropies were founded by the late Ms. Cargill, an heiress of Cargill, Inc., one of the world’s largest agribusiness companies, which was co-founded by her grandfather. Ms. Cargill was a woman of warmth, modesty, and generosity who used her wealth to support organizations doing work important to her. During her lifetime she made significant, but usually anonymous, donations to organizations globally, nationally, and in Southern California, where she lived most of her adult life. The three organizations under the MACP umbrella are Akaloa Resource Foundation, Anne Ray Charitable Trust, and Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, all based in Eden Prairie, MN. The three entities share a common mission of providing meaningful assistance and support to society, the arts, and the environment. They also share common values and a philosophy of grantmaking. The Philanthropies make grants in seven interest areas, which we call domains. These are: Environment, Disaster Relief & Recovery, Arts & Cultures, Teachers, Animal Welfare, Legacy & Opportunity, and Quality of life.
MACP makes mission-related investments concentrated in areas reflecting the MAC Philanthropies’ values and Margaret Cargill’s guiding principles. As of December 31, 2015, MACP has committed USD 100 million to mission-related investments expecting above market rates of return.
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Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services. The firm serves clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals, in 43 countries. In 2013, the firm established the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing to accelerate the adoption of sustainable investing strategies. The Institute partners across the firm to pioneer scalable sustainable finance solutions, new investing tools, and industry-leading insights that inform and empower investors. Morgan Stanley’s Global Sustainable Finance (GSF) group harnesses the power and discipline of the capital markets to enhance environmental sustainability, advance economic opportunity, and support community development. Since 2006, Morgan Stanley has facilitated more than $61 billion of capital for clean tech and renewable energy businesses and has committed more than $9.2 billion to community development initiatives since 2010.
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National Community Investment Fund
National Community Investment Fund (NCIF) is a nonprofit private equity trust fund created in 1996 to catalyze economic development in low-income and underserved communities across the US by supporting mission-oriented financial institutions. It invests capital into community development banking institutions (CDBIs), certified community development financial institutions (CDFIs), and minority-owned and focused depository institutions (MDIs). NCIF partners with impact investors — foundations, large banks, pension funds, and faith-based and socially responsible investors — in order to increase the flow of resources into the most distressed markets around the U.S. In addition to investing, NCIF supports the mission-oriented financial industry by supplying research and metrics for banks and their investors, sharing knowledge and best practices, connecting banks to decision-makers, and encouraging collaboration between banks within the sector. NCIF offers an online database of its Social Performance Metrics to evaluate and track the mission-related impact of all US banks and to demonstrate the tremendous impact of the mission-oriented financial sector.
NCIF pursues investment activities through three lines of business: 1) core investing in Tier 1 capital of banks/credit unions that have a social mission; 2) facilitating deposits into mission-oriented banks/credit unions; and 3) helping mission-oriented banks book loans using New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC). NCIF’s total assets under management are USD 195 million, including USD 173 million in New Markets Tax Credits. Since its inception, NCIF has invested in 45 financial institutions across the U.S. that direct loans to low-income borrowers and low- to moderate-income communities. Cumulatively, NCIF’s portfolio of financial institutions has generated over USD 5.8 billion in more than 109,000 development loans.
Read a profile of a National Community Investment Fund impact investment >
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Nuveen, a TIAA Company
Nuveen is the asset management arm of TIAA. Following the purchase of Nuveen Investments by TIAA, Nuveen, TIAA’s asset management unit and their multiple investment affiliates began delivering all the capabilities of a dozen investment affiliates under the name Nuveen. Nuveen currently manages $930 billion (as of 12/31/18) in assets for a variety of investors including corporate and public pensions, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, financial advisors, families and individuals. In addition to their broad array of traditional equity and fixed income assets, Nuveen offers access to a wide range of liquid and illiquid alternative strategies in asset classes such as real estate, real assets (farmland, timber, infrastructure) private equity and debt. Nuveen is also a pioneer in responsible investment, having incorporated environmental, social and governance criteria in investment decisions since 1970. Nuveen’s impact investments direct capital toward high-quality investment opportunities that seek to achieve competitive risk-adjusted returns alongside intentional and measurable social and environmental outcomes. In private markets, they have 30 years of experience and more than $1.2 billion cumulative capital commitments in impact investments. In addition, they manage approximately $3.5 billion in public fixed income impact investments—bonds with proceeds dedicated to positive social and/or environmental impact.
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Palladium
Palladium's capital advisory team is a market-leading impact investment banking team focused on inclusive investment. We connect clients with the capital they need to finance their growth, mobilize capital for impact, and create opportunities to generate both financial returns and social value.
Our expert advisory team draws on its extensive capital raising and structuring experience, across the spectrum of capital, in the execution of mandates. We partner with enterprises, development organisations, financial institutions and governments to design, connect, finance and build demand-driven solutions that are responsive to local market realities, specific client circ*mstances and investor goals and expectations.
Our team traces its origins from two market leaders in the impact industry, Triodos Facet and ShoreBank International. Triodos is a leading bank focused on sustainability and the real economy. Its in-house consulting arm was Triodos Facet, which merged (in 2013) with the international advisory business of The ShoreBank Group, the pioneer of the community banking model in the United States. The combination of those businesses became Enclude, leveraging their combined 50-year track record of entrepreneurship development, inclusive finance, and professional services delivery. In 2018, Enclude joined global impact firm Palladium and we continue to develop innovative ways of financing international development and leverage private capital to address the world’s greatest challenges.
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Proparco
Proparco is a subsidiary of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) focused on private sector development. It has been promoting sustainable economic, social and environmental development practices for the past 40 years. Proparco provides funding and support to both businesses and financial institutions across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle-East. It seeks to partner projects in key development sectors – infrastructure (with a specific focus on renewable energies), agribusiness, financial institutions, healthcare and education, etc. – and to boost the contribution of the private sector to achieving the sustainable development goals adopted by the international community in 2015. As a means to this end, Proparco finances businesses that are instrumental in creating decent jobs that pay decent wages, in supplying essential goods and services and in fighting against climate change. Proparco is a signatory of the Operating Principles for Impact Management and a member of their Advisory Board.
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Prudential
Prudential Financial, Inc. (Prudential) offers a variety of products and services through its business lines, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, investment management, and real estate services. As of September 2018, Prudential had USD 1.4 trillion in assets under management. Prudential has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Impact investments made by Prudential and The Prudential Foundation are managed by an internal asset management group called Social Investments. Social Investments invests in U.S. economic development and education sectors though private placement debt and equity. Special emphasis is placed on investing in urban communities where Prudential has a significant business presence, including Newark, NJ. The group has expanded its geographic reach to Latin America and Asia with microfinance and social venture investing. The group currently manages USD 329 million in assets. Since its creation in 1976, the unit has invested almost USD 1.5 billion in impact investments.
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Quona Capital Management Ltd.
Quona Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to financial technology for inclusion in emerging markets. Quona invests in scale-up stage companies that are expanding access to quality financial services for underserved consumers and small businesses in Africa, Latin America and Asia. We back entrepreneurs whose companies have the potential to provide outstanding financial returns and promote breakthrough innovation in financial inclusion. Quona leverages a strategic relationship with its fund sponsor, Accion, a global leader in inclusive finance with a rich history of double-bottom line investing. For further information, visit http://www.quona.com.
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responsAbility Investments AG
A leading impact asset manager with a 17-year track record, responsAbility manages over USD 3 bn of assets invested in 450 fully ESG-compliant high-impact companies across 90 emerging economies. Since the company's inception in 2003, responsAbility-managed funds have disbursed USD 10 bn in private debt and private equity to companies in the sectors of climate finance, sustainable food and financial inclusion whose business models directly support the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
responsAbility is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and has local offices in Bangkok, Geneva, Hong Kong, Lima, Mumbai, Nairobi, Oslo, Paris and Tbilisi. Owned by various reputable Swiss and international financial institutions, private investors and its own employees, responsAbility is registered with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA.
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The Rise Fund
The Rise Fund is a global fund committed to achieving measureable, positive social and environmental outcomes alongside competitive financial returns—what we call “complete returns.” The Rise Fund is managed by TPG Growth, the global growth equity and middle market buyout platform of alternative asset firm TPG. TPG Growth Founder and Managing Partner Bill McGlashan, U2 lead singer Bono, a well-known activist and a special partner with TPG Growth, and Jeff Skoll, a global entrepreneur, film producer, and impact investor, co-founded The Rise Fund. They were joined by a group of influential thought leaders with a deep personal and professional commitment to driving social and environmental progress, who came together to form the Founders Board. The Rise Fund’s objectives align with the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. The Rise Fund invests in education, energy, food and agriculture, financial services, growth infrastructure, healthcare, and technology, media, and telecommunications companies that deliver complete returns.
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The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation, a global philanthropic organization based in New York City, supports work that expands opportunity and strengthens resilience to social, economic, health, and environmental challenges-affirming its pioneering mission since 1913 to "promote the well-being" of humanity. Foundation initiatives focus on strengthening food security in sub-Saharan Africa, protecting economic security for American workers, promoting access to affordable and high-quality health systems in developing countries, and developing strategies and services that help vulnerable communities cope with the impact of climate change.
The Rockefeller Foundation realizes that there is not enough public and charitable capital to solve the world's social and environmental problems. In response, the Foundation created a USD 42 million Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing initiative, as a complement to charity and government in an effort to bring social and environmental solutions to scale. This initiative gives grants to catalyze the leadership that this emerging industry needs at this crucial stage in its development. The Foundation also oversees a USD 25 million program-related investment (PRI) portfolio, in the form of loans, equity, and guarantees, which aligns with the Foundation's issue areas.
Read a profile of a Rockefeller Foundation impact investment >
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Root Capital
Root Capital is a nonprofit agricultural lender that grows rural prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Indonesia. Root Capital aims to meet the underserved needs of the “missing middle” of agricultural finance—too large for microfinance and too small for commercial banking—by providing loan capital, delivering training, and strengthening market connections for small and growing agricultural businesses. We provide loans ranging from $200,000 to $2 million specially tailored to harvest and sales cycles. Since its inception in 1999, Root Capital has provided over USD 1.5 billion in loans to more than 740 small and growing agricultural businesses, representing more than 10M people in farming families. Root Capital partners with organizations such as Keurig Dr Pepper, Starbucks, Walmart Foundation, and IKEA Foundation to strengthen supply chains for coffee, cocoa, macadamia nuts, and more. When small and growing agricultural businesses in these sectors access finance, they grow and serve as engines of impact that raise incomes, empower women, create good jobs for young people, and preserve vulnerable ecosystems.
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Sarona Asset Management
Sarona is a private investment firm, which takes equity positions via a fund-of-funds model in growth-stage companies in high-growth countries across Frontier and Emerging markets. Sarona is a young company, with a rich history of being a pioneer in impact investing. We trace our roots back to 1953, when a group of business owners formed, the Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) to invest in the Sarona Dairy Farm in Paraguay. Through our primary strategy of investing in local funds, we seek to build companies that deliver high risk-adjusted returns, while promoting positive ethical, social, and environmental values. We aim to carefully select only those local fund managers, who are able to demonstrate that they add real strategic and operational value to the companies that they invest in. We believe that small to mid-market companies, in their expansion stage, represent one of the best risk-adjusted opportunities within these fast growing markets. Since it is extremely difficult to capitalize on these opportunities without a local presence, we adopted a fund-of-fund investment model. The fund-of-fund investment model enables us to focus on cultivating lasting relationships – built on mutual trust and respect – with experienced local fund managers, who are able to navigate the complex realities of their home markets. As of 1 January 2017, we managed $200mm. Sarona Frontier Markets Fund I and Sarona Frontier Markets Fund II remain committed to a combination of primary and secondary funds and direct co-investments. We also advise MEDA on a small number of direct loans and equity investments. With the right partners and strategy, growing highly successful and profitable companies can have a significant developmental impact. This is what drives us: building a diversified portfolio of funds and companies to deliver Growth that Matters.
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Save the Children Global Ventures
Save the Children Global Ventures (SCGV) is Save the Children’s new impact investing and innovative finance platform intended to mobilise high-impact capital to solve some of the most pressing problems facing children. To do so, our team seeks to 1) launch a series of impact investment funds and 2) utilise innovative structures to catalyse private funders into deep-impact investment opportunities. SCGV will leverage the technical expertise of Save the Children's global delivery platform to source opportunities, strengthen its portfolio of investments and communicate impact. We have an openness to experiment, with the objective of expanding new and transformational business models and to scale technologies and other solutions for children.
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Soros Economic Development Fund
Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) is part of the Economic Advancement Program (EAP) of The Open Society Foundations (OSF). Created by philanthropist George Soros, OSF is a network of foundations that promotes vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to criticism, whose laws and policies are open to debate and correction, and whose political institutions are open to the participation of all people. EAP’s mission is to increase economic opportunity for the marginalized in ways that promote inclusive, open and prosperous societies. SEDF uses equity, debt, and credit guarantees to finance businesses and initiatives that support its goals. It invests in enterprises, investment funds, and financial institutions. SEDF is a non-profit, private foundation that has invested over $200 million since 1997. With access to over $350 million in investment capital, SEDF aims to deploy up to $80 million of new capital each year. The Fund operates out of New York, London and Johannesburg.
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Summa Equity
Summa Equity invests in companies that have leading solutions to global challenges and that create positive Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) outcomes for society.
We co-create win-win for our investors, our companies, and society through aligning our vision and outcomes to the Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring a net-positive impact against ESG challenges, and the potential for long-term, sustainable outperformance.
We focus on industries and companies within three sustainability megatrends: Resource Efficiency, Changing Demographics, and Tech-Enabled Transformation. Across those themes, our companies are supporting a world which is undergoing a period of transition and showing that business can be part of the solution.
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Surdna Foundation
The Surdna Foundation is a $1 billion private, national foundation that seeks to foster sustainable communities in the United States — communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy environments, inclusive economies and thriving cultures. Surdna seeks to dismantle the structural barriers that limit opportunity for many, helping to create communities that are prosperous, culturally enriching and sustainable. In 2017, the Foundation launched a $100 million commitment to impact investing, which works alongside its grantmaking in support of its mission. The Foundation focuses on a combination of mission- and program-related investments, along with other strategies. Learn more at surdna.org.
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Swedfund
Swedfund is Sweden's development finance institution for sustainable investments in developing countries. In order to achieve the goal: a world without poverty, more jobs are required in the private sector and that access to renewable energy is increasing. Investments are therefore made within energy & climate, health and to reach small and medium-sized companies. As a state-owned company, Swedfund is managed by the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation. The operations are financed partly through capital injections for which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible and through reflows from the own portfolio. Swedfund was founded in 1979 and has since the start made more than 240 investments in more than 60 countries.
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Temasek
Temasek is an investment company with a net portfolio value of S$306 billion (US$214 billion) as at 31 March 2020. Its three roles as an Investor, Institution and Steward, as defined in the Temasek Charter, shape Temasek’s ethos to do well, do right and do good. Temasek actively seeks sustainable solutions to address present and future challenges, through investment and other opportunities that help to bring about a better, smarter and more sustainable world. As part of our commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we believe in the potential of impact investing to unlock the capital needed to overcome the critical social and environmental challenges that the world is facing.
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Treehouse Investments, LLC
Treehouse Investments, LLC, is a privately owned, impact-focused investment fund founded in 2013. We arededicated to supporting long-term sustainable and scalable solutions that address the world’s most critical challenges. We believe that the private sector is essential to meeting the pressing market needs created by climate change, gender inequality, anduneven access to capital. We recognize that supporting transformational business models and strategies not only benefits the planet and us as its inhabitants, but also represents a significant market opportunity.
Treehouse Investments targets market rate returns by investing in companies with sustainable business models that address three core impact objectives: 1) reducing greenhouse gases, 2) empowering women, and 3) catalyzing a capital shift to sustainable investment practices.
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Triodos Investment Management
Triodos Investment Management is a globally recognised leader in impact investing – offering investable solutions to addressing today’s challenges. We connect a broad range of investors who want to make their money work for lasting, positive change with innovative entrepreneurs and sustainable businesses doing just that. In doing so, we serve as a catalyst in sectors that are key in the transition to a world that is fairer, more sustainable and humane.
With our highly professional investment teams, we have built up in-depth knowledge throughout our 25 years of impact investing in sectors such as Energy & Climate, Inclusive Finance, Sustainable Food & Agriculture, Arts & Culture, and Sustainable Real Estate, with a total value of EUR 3.3 billion. Besides the 500+ direct impact investments in these sectors, we invest in listed companies with an above-average environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. With investments in 50+ countries Triodos Investment Management truly is a global player.
Triodos Investment Management is wholly-owned subsidiary of Triodos Bank NV, one of the world’s leading sustainable banks.
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Triple Jump
Triple Jump is an impact focused investment manager providing meaningful and responsible investment opportunities. Our mission is to go where capital invested can empower people and improve lives. We do this by offering financing and technical assistance to financial intermediaries and SMEs operating in emerging and frontier markets. To date we have invested over €1.5 billion in 75 plus countries around the world, with a track record in managing high-impact investment mandates and funds with a total AUM of €900+ million. Our cumulative outreach is almost 2 million low income end-clients and indirectly supporting over 2.2 million jobs. We pride ourselves in aiming to be a first mover while remaining involved in the markets we work in mature and gain specialization over time. While the company is headquartered in Amsterdam, our work is most effective when driven from the ground up. As a result we have offices in Bangkok, Lima, Mexico City, Nairobi, and Tbilisi, which are responsible for activities in the respective coverage areas, with over 90 professionals across the globe. Triple Jump is a fully licensed entity supervised by the Dutch Central Bank and Financial Markets Authority.
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UBS
UBS is a global financial services firm with a 150-year heritage serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, we are present in all major financial centers worldwide. UBS' four business divisions are Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management and the Investment Bank. UBS is a leader in providing sustainable and impact investing advice and solutions to individual, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as philanthropic advice and innovative social finance solutions through UBS in Society.
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U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
We invest across sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and technology. DFC also provides financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs in order to create jobs in emerging markets. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights. DFC makes America a stronger and more competitive leader on the global development stage with greater ability to partner with allies on transformative projects. Further, we provide the developing world with financially sound alternatives to unsustainable and irresponsible state-directed initiatives.
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Visa Foundation
Visa Foundation seeks to support inclusive economies where individuals, businesses and communities can thrive. We believe that creating a capital continuum for small businesses is crucial for their sustainability and growth. As such, the Foundation aims to increase equitable and efficient access to capital at different stages of business growth, support gender diverse and inclusive small businesses, and promote inclusive economic growth through grantmaking and investing while influencing the sector in order to accelerate the growth of gender lens investing.
Visa Foundation, registered in the U.S. as a 501(c)(3) entity, also supports broader community needs as well as humanitarian responses in times of crisisLearn more at visa.com/foundation
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Zurich Insurance Group
Zurich is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With more than 55,000 employees, it provides a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services. Zurich's customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, including multinational corporations, in more than 170 countries.
Responsible investment forms an integral part of Zurich's investment philosophy and approach. At Zurich, responsible investment is about managing the pool of customer reserves and shareholder capital, worth approximately USD 200 billion, so as to create social and environmental value alongside financial returns or, in other words, to do well and do good. To achieve those objectives, Zurich integrates ESG into its investment processes; allocates capital to impact investments that help mitigate environmental risks and increase community resilience; and works together with other industry participants to advance responsible investment practices.
