Impact-Oriented Investment Funds: An Overview

Helen Chiappini ()
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Helen Chiappini: Sapienza University of Rome

Chapter Chapter 3 in Social Impact Funds, 2017, pp 51-91 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presented impact-oriented funds from many prospective: definition, mission, investment strategy, Investment strategy the literature, state of the industry, risks, challenges, drivers for success, and case studies. This overview permits a first investigation of lack of literature on impact funds. The definition of impact-funds mission and investment strategy are still ambiguous; thus, the chapter tries to adapt the OECDOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (Social impact investment. Building the evidence base, Paris, 2015) definition of social impact investment to impact-oriented funds and provides a firsthand classification of impact-oriented funds split into three categories: commercialFund commercial impact-oriented funds, non-commercialFund non-commercial impact-oriented funds, and quasi-commercialFund quasi-commercial impact-oriented funds.

Keywords: Impact funds; Impact investing funds; Social impact funds; Environmental impact funds; Mission of impact funds; Investment strategy of funds; Risk of impact funds; Layered funds; Revolving funds; Literature of impact funds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55260-6_3

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