Raul Pomares, founder of San-Francisco-based Sonen Capital, said he advises clients, including tax-exempt foundations that typically don’t buy munis, that this segment of local-government debt has a role to play.
They have published research reports that require one to register for their website, but are worth that small effort, including "Evolution of an Impact Portfolio", "2013 Annual Impact Report",
Marked the “Year of Impact Investing,” 2013 saw a total of $36 billion committed in capital for impact investing. By 2020, it’s estimated that figure will increase to $1 trillion.
The debate over financial and non-financial return factors has long been at the heart of the socially responsible investment debate, no more so than when considering the impact of holdings.
The idea of doing good while making a healthy profit is rapidly gaining ground, particularly among wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs but also among foundations and pension funds. Social impact investing — for-profit investing for social good — has crossed into the mainstream and is driving investment decisions.
Researchers in Bethesda, Maryland, have spent eight years developing a handheld device to quickly assess potential brain trauma in injured U.S. soldiers and athletes with concussions. Jean Case and her husband Steve, who co-founded AOL Inc. (AOL), invested in BrainScope Co., the device's developer, through their family office in 2008.
I started out my search for a summer internship looking for opportunities where finance and sustainability converged. Naturally, impact investing was one the fields where I started to look for opportunities, and managed to find a summer position at Sonen Capital.
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