Tag Archives: Impact Investing

How do impact investment fund managers balance the needs of their investors with the needs of their investees/borrowers? RSF Social Finance’s answer: through radical transparency. How would the world be different if the financial system were open and transparent? What …

As dozens of new impact investing funds are created explicitly to tackle the world’s most intractable social and environmental problems, including over 60 globally in 2011, best practices that lead to impact investing performance are more needed than ever. A new …

This post was written by second year student, Jacqueline Westley.  Jacqueline interned this summer at RSF Social Finance with the support of CASE’s Summer Internship Fund (learn more about SIF at the bottom on this post!). RSF is a non-profit …

This post was written by Sarah Ritter, Program Coordinator of Insight at Pacific Community Ventures and originally posted on the PCV blog. Sarah recaps our recent launch event of the Impact Investor project.  This is part 2 of the recap, …

This post was written by Sarah Ritter, Program Coordinator of Insight at Pacific Community Ventures and originally posted on the PCV blog. Sarah recaps our recent launch event of the Impact Investor project.  This is part 1 of the recap, …

This post was written by second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Beth Bafford. Beth reflects on a recent visit from Lisa Hall, President and CEO of the Calvert Foundation. As we’ve mentioned on this blog before, there is a lot …

This post was written by Mailande Moran, a first year Duke MBA and a student fellow with CASE i3.  On Wednesday, the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing co-hosted a meeting of roughly 80 leading investors, entrepreneurs, academics and intermediaries from the …

This post was written by Amy Snyder and Beth Bafford. Amy and Beth are both second year MBA students, CASE Fellows, and the co-chairs of this year’s fantastic Duke MBA Net Impact “Sustainable Business and Social Impact” Conference.  Earlier this …

By Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson and Ben Thornley Impact investing is at an inflection point, building off the rich histories of community finance in the United States and other countries, microfinance, international development, and the integration of ESG factors (Environmental, …

This post was written by first year MBA student Ian Cain.  Ian reflects on a recent visit from Ron D. Cordes, co-chairman of Genworth Financial Wealth Management and founder of ImpactAssets.  Cordes came to Fuqua as part of the CASE i3 speaker series on impact investing.  …