Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of impact investing
- Covers key actors and instruments
- Presents mechanisms for assessing impact
- Explores the fundamentals of this new investment concept
- Offers useful reference materials for students and lecturers
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance (SIF)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book is the first publication to provide a comprehensive overview about the market, financial instruments and the associated impact assessment for interested practitioners and academics. Specifically, it will introduce the concept of impact investing within the broader field of social finance as well as the relevant actors, present current financing instruments and the various tools to assess the impact of the investing strategy. This useful reference tool will be of interest to academics and researchers in the field of impact investing.
Impact investing is a dynamic field that has been recently been discussed as a supplemental funding source for addressing societal problems. The topic has generated significant interest and is presumed to achieve double-digit growth rates for the coming years.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl is the managing director of Next Generation Impact, Chairman of the social impact company Sports Philosophy and trustee of the Freedom for Children Foundation. Prior to this, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Civil Society Center at the Zeppelin University, Germany.
Barbara Scheck is Professor for Entrepreneurship at Munich Business School, member of the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie and co-founder of Volunteer Vision. Her research interests include social finance, impact assessment and corporate volunteering. Previously, she was an assistant professor for social investment at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Impact Investing
Book Subtitle: Instruments, Mechanisms and Actors
Authors: Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl, Barbara Scheck
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66556-6
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
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88271-0Published: 05 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66556-6Published: 15 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-5105
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5113
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 175
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Finance