Abstract
Impact investing exists within a broader spectrum of investment based on financial and social returns. On one side of the investment spectrum, traditional financial investment seeks to maximize financial return with very limited or no regard for social impacts.
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UNPRI, “Full list of PRI Signatories”, https://www.unpri.org/signatories/signatory-resources/signatory-directory, November 29, 2021.
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Range is due to whether or not to count all of the known Tsing Capital investments, who started as a traditional investor 2000 and began to self-identify as an impact investor only much later. Breakout of investments made before and after this change is unknown.
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Due to the limited actors directly involved in impact investing, the scope of interviewee participants was expanded to organizations using venture philanthropy and those interested and/or planning to do impact investing. We also interviewed organizations supporting impact investing through knowledge transfer, networking, and/or education. This expansion provides more context to the current state of impact investing and its potential.
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Example questionnaires are provided for each category of interviewee in the appendix.
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Finance Center for South-South Cooperation (2023). Definition of Impact Investing. In: Finance Center for South-South Cooperation (eds) Impact Investing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4935-9_1
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