Global Handbook of Impact Investing - by Elsa de Morais Sarmento & R Paul Herman (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Discover how to invest your capital to achieve a powerful, lasting impact on the world.<br /></b><i>The Global Handbook of Impact Investing: Solving Global Problems Via Smarter Capital Markets Towards A More Sustainable Society</i> is an insightful guide to the growing world-wide movement of Impact Investing. Impact investors seek to realize lasting, beneficial improvements in society by allocating capital to sources of impactful and sustainable profit. </p> <p>This Handbook is a how-to guide for institutional investors, including family offices, foundations, endowments, governments, and international organizations, as well as academics, students, and everyday investors globally. The Handbook´s wide-ranging contributions from around the world make a powerful case for positive impact and profit to fund substantive, lasting solutions that solve critical problems across the world.</p> <p>Edited by two experienced and distinguished professionals in the sustainable investing arena and authored by two dozen renowned experts from finance, academia, and multilateral organizations from around the world, the <i>Global Handbook of Impact Investing</i> educates, inspires, and spurs action towards more responsible investing across all asset classes, resulting in smarter capital markets, including how to: </p> <p>- Realize positive impact and profit</p> <p>- Integrate impact into investment decision-making and portfolio </p> <p>- Allocate impactful investments across all asset classes</p> <p>- Apply unique Impact Investing frameworks </p> <p>- Measure, evaluate and report on impact</p> <p>- Learn from case examples around the globe</p> <p>- Pursue Best Practices in Impact Investing and impact reporting </p> <p> While other resources may take a local or limited approach to the subject, this Handbook gathers global knowledge and results from public and private institutions spanning five continents. The authors also make a powerful case for the ability of Impact Investing to lead to substantive and lasting change that addresses critical problems across the world.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Globally, more than 20% of all investment is intentionally allocated to make a positive impact on society and the planet. As the quest for social justice and climate action become ever more pressing, the amount of capital devoted to impact investing is slated to grow. All types of capital providers--investors, governments, multi-lateral banks, NGOs, universities--are demanding that the immense power of their assets both do good and do well, funding solutions and transforming the world we live in. <p>Investment and finance professionals, academics, along with government leaders and change-making innovators in the public and private sectors, all demand a guide to understand the theory and practice of impact investing. The <i>Global Handbook of Impact Investing</i> answers this urgent call with wide-ranging content on the history, current state, and future direction for impact investing. <p>Allocating resources to impact investing is even more powerful when rigorous assessment methodologies can ensure the highest-impact results are being realized. This book is a major milestone, serving as a comprehensive yet practical resource to define and measure impact--an advancement in the field--that guides investors pushing towards a greener and more sustainable world. <p>In our globalized world, we face complex challenges that demand equally complex and interconnected solutions. No other book on the market approaches the broad, international scope of this new volume. Thirty chapters by leaders in global and sustainable finance offer frameworks and case examples drawn from five continents. This handbook provides a holistic understanding required to bring impact investing to scale and forge unprecedented positive change in the capital markets of today and tomorrow.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>ELSA DE MORAIS SARMENTO</b> is an Associate Researcher at NOVAFRICA at Nova Business School of Management and Economics. She co-edited <i>The Emerald Handbook of Public Private Partnerships in Developing and Emerging Economies</i>. <p><b>R. PAUL HERMAN</b> is CEO of HIP (Human Impact + Profit) Investor Ratings and Portfolios and has served as faculty at business schools around the world. He is author of <i>The HIP Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World</i>.
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