 How Many Funds Are Really Impact Funds?Helen Chiappini ()
Chapter Chapter 5 in Social Impact Funds, 2017, pp 105-138 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The aim of this chapter is to analyze impact funds mission and investment strategyInvestment strategy in order to assess whether impact funds show the ‘basic features of impact investing.’ Moreover, this chapter assesses if there are dissimilarities between funds: (1) investing in developing and developed countries; (2) investing in social or environmental sectors; (3) differentiable according to the size parameter. In order to perform this analysis the OECDOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (Social impact investment. Building the evidence base. Paris, 2015) definition of impact investment has been employed as a ‘standard of minimum requirements’ that any impact investment should demonstrate. A content analysisContent analysis methodology was applied to answer to the research questions. Keywords: Impact investing; Impact funds; Social impact funds; Environmental impact funds; Mission of impact funds; Impact investing; Investment strategy of funds; Financial return of impact funds; Measurement of social impact; Content analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:psifcp:978-3-319-55260-6_5 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55260-6_5 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance from Palgrave Macmillan |
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