What Is Impact Financing?

 

The potential investment opportunity for all businesses serving these emerging consumers at the “base of the economic pyramid” across all industries is between $400 billion and $1 trillion. The greatest untapped opportunity for businesses, and for society, is to serve this immense market. Our team pursues and fulfills this opportunity every day. We call it Impact financing. 

 

An innovative concept, impact financing encompass any asset classes that finance companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. However, financing is only one side of the equation. Innovative technologies, new business models and shifts in the prevailing paradigm are necessary to tackle the most pressing challenges our world faces.