Social Impact Investing
An Australian Perspective
What it is.
Social Impact Investing: An Australian Perspective examines what happens when capital is allocated for measurable social outcomes as well as financial return. Co-authored by Professor Stewart Jones, it brings the same evidence-first discipline he applies to credit and distress to the fast-growing field of impact investing.
The book sets out how impact is defined, measured, and financed in an Australian context: the instruments, the players, and the hard question of how you actually prove an investment did good as well as did well.
For investors, advisers, and policymakers weighing social and financial returns together, it is a grounded, Australian-specific guide to a field that is often long on intention and short on measurement.
Written to be used.
- Investors and advisers building impact or ESG-aware portfolios.
- Trustees and foundations allocating capital for social outcomes.
- Policymakers and not-for-profits structuring impact finance.
- Anyone who wants impact measured, not just asserted.
From the publisherSocial impact investing has emerged as one of the most transformational investment trends in the world today, with the power to reshape modern capitalism by directing capital markets at entrenched social and environmental problems such as poverty and climate change. The book gives a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon and the challenges to its growth in Australia and internationally, and argues that a high-quality framework for measuring, reporting, and evaluating social impact is critical to building investor confidence and moving impact investing into the mainstream. It also sets out the pivotal role governments play, not only as facilitator and regulator but as an active purchaser of social outcomes.
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Capital allocated for measurable social outcomes, examined in an Australian context.
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