Synopses & Reviews
Your money can change the worldThe Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism offers precise details on what, exactly, impact investing entails, embodied in the experiences and best and proven practices of some of the world's most successful impact investors, across asset classes, geographies and areas of impact. The book discusses the parameters of impact investing in unprecedented detail and clarity, providing both context and tools to those eager to engage in the generational shift in the way finance and business is being approached in the new era of Collaborative Capitalism.
The book presents a simple thesis with clarity and conviction: "Impact investing can be done successfully. This is what success looks like, and this is what it requires." With much-needed lessons for practitioners, the authors view impact investing as a harbinger of a new, more "multilingual" (cross-sector), transparent, and accountable form of economic leadership.
The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism serves as a resource for a variety of players in finance and business, including:
- Investors: It demonstrates not only the types of investments which can be profitable and impactful, but also details best practices that, with roots in impact investing, will increasingly play a role in undergirding the success of all investment strategies.
- Wealth advisors/financial services professionals: With unprecedented detail on the innovative structures and strategies of impact investing funds, the book provides guidance to financial institutions on how to incorporate these investments in client portfolios.
- Foundations: The book explores the many catalytic and innovative ways for for-profit and non-profit investors to partner, amplifying the potential social and environmental impacts of philanthropic spending and market-rate endowment investment.
- Business students: By including strategies for making sound impact investments based on detailed case studies, it provides concrete lessons and explores the skills required to enhance prospects for success as a finance and business professional.
- Policy makers: Reinforcing the urgency of creating a supportive and enabling environment for impact investing, the book demonstrates ways policy has already shaped the sector, and suggests new ways for policymakers to support it.
- Corporate leaders: The book includes essential advice on the way business is and must be responding to a new generation of Millennial clients and customers, with unique insights into a form of value creation that is inherently more collaborative and outcomes-driven.
Table of Contents
FOREWORD (SIR RONALD COHEN)
PREFACE
LIST OF FIGURES
CHAPTER ONE: Inside Collaborative Capitalism
Three Core Elements of Collaborative Capitalism
CHAPTER TWO: Raising the Curtain on Impact Investing
Sizing the market
Key Actors and Activities
The Fund Perspective
The 12 Funds
The Performance Numbers
The Impact Investing Fund Landscape
First Responders
Solution Specialists
Early-Stage Innovators
Scale Agents
CHAPTER FOUR: Symbiosis as Strategy
The Practice of Policy Symbiosis
Public Sector Innovation in Alignment with the Private Sector
The Public Case for Impact Investing
The Symbiosis as Strategy Toolkit
The Five London Principles
CHAPTER FIVE: The New Deal
The Terrain for the New Deal
Myths of Catalytic Capital
Four Types of Catalytic Capital
The Catalytic Capital Toolkit
CHAPTER SIX: Multilingual Leadership
New Skillsets for New Leaders
Multilingual Leadership in the Research
Multilingual Leadership as Cross Disciplinary and Collaborative
Defining Multilingual Leadership for Impact Investing
The Multilingual Leader: From Individual, to Team, to Firm
Building a Multilingual Team: Acquiring Multilingual Capacity
The Multilingual Leadership Toolkit
Beyond Impact Investing
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Writing On the Wall
Top Ten Global Impact Trends To Watch—and Be Part of!
From Outputs to Outcomes to Integrated Performance
The Investor’s Right to Know
The Globalization of Financial Impact Innovation
Innovation in Impact Education
Post-Partisan Public Leadership
New Perspectives on the 21st Century Fiduciary
The Promise of Philanthropic Rebirth
The Great Thaw
Corporate Alignment
All In: The Family Office as Foundation, Investor and Advocate
CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS
Ongoing Challenges for the Field’s Development
Using the Right Tool for the Right Problem
The Road Ahead
RESOURCE GUIDE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
END NOTES
Index