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Social Impact Funds

Definition, Assessment and Performance

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Authors:
  1. Helen Chiappini

    1. University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

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  • Provides a detailed analysis of social impact funds
  • Rigorously assesses the features of social impact funds
  • Presents a cluster analysis of funds to offer a synthetic assessment of the market
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance (SIF)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Helen Chiappini
    Pages 1-5

  3. An Introduction to Social Impact Investing

    • Helen Chiappini
    Pages 7-50

  4. Impact-Oriented Investment Funds: An Overview

    • Helen Chiappini
    Pages 51-91

  5. A Market Segmentation of Impact-Oriented Funds

    • Helen Chiappini
    Pages 93-104

  6. How Many Funds Are Really Impact Funds?

    • Helen Chiappini
    Pages 105-138

  7. Determinants of Funds’ Target Return

    • Helen Chiappini
    Pages 139-154

  8. Concluding Remarks

    • Helen Chiappini
    Pages 155-163

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 165-168
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About this book

This book provides a detailed study of the social impact funds industry. In particular, chapters focus on: 

  • The contextualization of social impact funds within the social impact investment market;
  • The exploration of features, investment strategy and classification of funds;
  • An in-depth analysis of the emergent literature; 
  • An analysis of case studies of impact funds;
  • A synthetic assessment of the industry, conducted through a cluster analysis; The exploration of investment strategy and mission consistency of funds active in the market aimed to show funds attitude to be defined as “impact-oriented funds”;
  • The investigation of determinants of funds’ target performance. 


This volume will be useful to scholars, students from different academic disciplines such as economics, finance, political science, entrepreneurship, and practitioners who are interested in impact investing and in the financing of social impact programs through impact-funds.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    Helen Chiappini

About the author

Helen Chiappini received her PhD cum laude in banking and finance at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is currently  honorary Assistant Lecturer in microfinance and ethical finance at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and honorary Assistant Lecturer in banking and finance at Marconi University of Rome, Italy. Helen is also affiliated to the Research Centre for Banking and Finance at Regent’s University London, UK, where she was previously a visiting Research Fellow. Her research interests lie in the areas of social impact investment, social impact funds and microfinance.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Impact Funds

  • Book Subtitle: Definition, Assessment and Performance

  • Authors: Helen Chiappini

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55260-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55259-0Published: 19 May 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55260-6Published: 10 May 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2662-5105

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-5113

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 168

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Investments and Securities

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