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Canadian SRI up by 16 per cent since 2010

According to a report by the Social Investment Organization, socially responsible investments in Canada have risen by 16 per cent since 2010. This growth is seen in virtually every major market segment and outpaces growth of total assets under management. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

Opening the black box: social investment and social innovation

This paper by the European Social Innovation Research distils the essences of social innovation and the capital flows required for it. A previously published full report explores links between social finance and social innovation in more detail. Read the three page report here, and the full report here.

January 28, 2013

Philanthopy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013

This report by the Foundation Centre and the European Foundation Centre predicts a number of potential social impact projects in 2013. It predicts that as many as 6 social impact bonds will be released this year. Read more here, and read the report here.

January 28, 2013

Venezuela: 88 per cent more social investment in 2012

This video report highlights the efforts made by the government in increasing social investment to address several issues like education, social security, health, housing and more. In the last year social investment has increased by an overall 88 per cent in the country. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

Calvert benefits through private partner Incapital

Calvert Foundation’s partner since 2005, Incapital has been supporting the organization by selling its Community Investment Notes through their sales platform. This has been so successful that sales of these notes account for 80 per cent of Calvert’s total sales. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

Do investors really care about sustainability?

This post highlights, through several examples, how companies are concentrating on their sustainability outcomes to ensure that their financial outcomes are aligned to their goals. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

Venture Social Investment: Decreasing poverty, increasing profit

This post explains the concept of VSI, or Venture Social Investment. While Venture Capitalists want to see the highest returns financially, Venture Social Investors are applying a number of innovative concepts to enhance social outcomes, while playing on already thin budgets of many international aid efforts. Read more here.

January 28, 2013

Six reasons why impact investing needs an index

‘Investment loves an index’. This post talks about the need for an index specially designed for impact investment. While typical financial investment indexes financial returns, impact investment requires to index dual concerns – both impact, and financial returns. Read a list of reasons why impact investment needs its own investment […]

January 28, 2013

The next 20 years of impact investing

In this post, Lisa Hall, Calvert Foundation’s CEO, talks about an on-going paradigm shift that is happening in the investment scenario globally. Having attended serial conferences, mostly based around impact investment, she is convinced that the next 20 years will see unprecedented scale up of the practice of impact investment, […]