The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors: Generating Social and Environmental Value through Capital Investing
The book is designed for investors who want to build portfolios that create a better world and have a positive impact on social and environmental issues as an integral part of their strategies to generate financial returns.
It features a chapter by Kris Putnam-Walkerly, global philanthropy advisor and President of Putnam Consulting Group, “Transformational Giving: Philanthropy as an Investment in Change”.
The chapter provides clear guidance for investors who wish to incorporate philanthropy as an investment asset, including nearly two dozen ways that investors can identify, maintain and enhance philanthropic investments that will increase overall effectiveness and transform communities, industries and society.
Putnam-Walker said ““When done correctly, transformational philanthropic investments can play a key role in an investor’s overall portfolio, as well as in achieving greater vision, increased impact, and deeper meaning as part of an investor’s total return”.
The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors also includes advice from other experts and industry leaders about investment strategies that intertwine social change and economic return.
About Jed Emerson
Jed Emerson, senior fellow at ImpactAssets, a nonprofit financial services firm, is an internationally recognized author and thought leader within the field of impact investing. He has led, co-founded and served on the board of directors of a variety of impact funds, social enterprises and family office investment committees. Originator of the concept of Blended Value,
Reviews
“For investors who are serious about tackling social and environment issues, and considering making impact investments, this book is highly recommended. It is grounded in practical information, pragmatic advice and persuasive examples. Jed challenges traditional thinking, debunks myths and misperceptions about this powerful model of social change and makes impact investing accessible to an ever-widening circle of investors determined to change the world.”
Amit Bouri, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Global Impact Investing Network
