Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui, co-founder of Latin America-focused impact investing fund IGNIA, shares his motivations for investing in businesses providing critical goods and services to people living at the base of the socioeconomic pyramid.

"The question always at the top of our mind is how to help deliver the rest of the world to the base of the socioeconomic pyramid, and the base of the socioeconomic pyramid to the rest of the world. Despite their proximity to urban areas, slums are often anything but with respect to access to goods and services."