Catalyzing Wealth for Change: Guide to Impact Investing
May 02, 2016
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Catalyzing Wealth For Change is a practice-oriented manual, focused on helping the readers not only to understand impact investment, but also to become engaged in this field in a meaningful way and to navigate its complexities with success.
Based on in-depth interviews with over 160 leading private impact investors globally, the Guide provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which HNW families, their foundations, family offices, and family businesses engage in impact investing. 45 of these HNW families from 21 countries are profiled in candid case studies detailing their personal journeys, strategies used, and lessons learned.
The Guide contains step-by-step guidance on the development and implementation of an impact investment program. It explains the particularities of selecting, analyzing, and managing impact investments, incorporates practical tips from private and institutional impact investors, and provides details of a broad range of practical tools and resources.
Catalyzing Wealth For Change also offers solid evidence that impact investing can generate tangible societal impact, as well as attractive financial returns. The Guide provides the composition and performance of 12 private impact investment portfolios and 17 impact investment products across asset classes, and summarizes the results of recent performance studies and track-record of microfinance.
