{"id":15410,"date":"2021-10-04T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/?p=15410"},"modified":"2021-10-04T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:11:07","slug":"impact-investment-why-business-chooses-socially-significant-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/impact-investment-why-business-chooses-socially-significant-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact investment: why business chooses socially significant projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;impact investing&#8221; appeared in 2007, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockefellerfoundation.org\/blog\/bringing-scale-impact-investing-industry\/\">Rockefeller Foundation<\/a> sought definitions for investments aimed not only at financial gain but also the positive impact on society and the environment. Over time, impact investment has increased tenfold. So in 2020, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thegiin.org\/research\/publication\/impinv-survey-2020#charts\">Global Impact Investing Network<\/a>, the impact investment market reached $ 715 billion.<\/p>\n<p>What differs from ordinary charity investment is that the investor does not give up the financial benefit, although it may be minimal. But they are not called business alone either: impact investments must be of public or environmental benefit. Moreover, the desire to reduce the negative impact of business on society and the environment has become one of the prerequisites for the emergence of impact investment.<\/p>\n<h3>A thin line<\/h3>\n<p>The term \u201cimpact investment\u201d is not unique among investors. Also used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ESG \u2014 environmental, social, and managerial parameters of investments that can have a significant impact on their effectiveness. The factor of financial success remains the main one, and the ESG analysis should contribute to this.<\/li>\n<li>SRI (socially responsible investing) \u2014 a step forward compared to ESG; selection of investments in accordance with certain principles and active avoidance of those that contradict them. The main motive here may be personal, political, or religious beliefs. SRIs are considered part of impact investing, as they should also have a positive impact on the environment.<\/li>\n<li>Green investing \u2014 investment in business activities that have a positive impact on the environment. One of the types of SRI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both individual investors and organizations can become impact investors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>various financial institutions\/banks;<\/li>\n<li>financial institutions of development;<\/li>\n<li>private funds;<\/li>\n<li>pension funds and insurance companies;<\/li>\n<li>family offices;<\/li>\n<li>individual investors;<\/li>\n<li>non-governmental organizations;<\/li>\n<li>religious institutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Projects<\/h3>\n<p><em>Beam, India<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Indian company Beam has raised private investment to finance a business project aimed at serving the &#8220;non-banking&#8221; part of India&#8217;s population. That is, those who never became customers of banks. Beam allows citizens to use electronic payment systems even without a traditional bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;impact investing&#8221; appeared in 2007, when the Rockefeller Foundation sought definitions for investments aimed not only at financial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-new.php","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15411,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions\/15411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}