The Impact Investor E-Book

Cathy Clark

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 555

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Your money can change the world The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism offers precise details on what, exactly, impact investing entails, embodied in the experiences and best and proven practices of some of the world's most successful impact investors, across asset classes, geographies and areas of impact. The book discusses the parameters of impact investing in unprecedented detail and clarity, providing both context and tools to those eager to engage in the generational shift in the way finance and business is being approached in the new era of Collaborative Capitalism. The book presents a simple thesis with clarity and conviction: "Impact investing can be done successfully. This is what success looks like, and this is what it requires." With much-needed lessons for practitioners, the authors view impact investing as a harbinger of a new, more "multilingual" (cross-sector), transparent, and accountable form of economic leadership. The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism serves as a resource for a variety of players in finance and business, including: * Investors: It demonstrates not only the types of investments which can be profitable and impactful, but also details best practices that, with roots in impact investing, will increasingly play a role in undergirding the success of all investment strategies. * Wealth advisors/financial services professionals: With unprecedented detail on the innovative structures and strategies of impact investing funds, the book provides guidance to financial institutions on how to incorporate these investments in client portfolios. * Foundations: The book explores the many catalytic and innovative ways for for-profit and non-profit investors to partner, amplifying the potential social and environmental impacts of philanthropic spending and market-rate endowment investment. * Business students: By including strategies for making sound impact investments based on detailed case studies, it provides concrete lessons and explores the skills required to enhance prospects for success as a finance and business professional. * Policy makers: Reinforcing the urgency of creating a supportive and enabling environment for impact investing, the book demonstrates ways policy has already shaped the sector, and suggests new ways for policymakers to support it. * Corporate leaders: The book includes essential advice on the way business is and must be responding to a new generation of Millennial clients and customers, with unique insights into a form of value creation that is inherently more collaborative and outcomes-driven.

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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Tables and Figures

Foreword

Preface

Dedication

Introduction

Part One: Key Practices and Drivers Underlying Impact Investing

Chapter 1: Inside Collaborative Capitalism

The Roots of Collaborative Capitalism

The Collaborative Capitalism Pyramid

Three Core Elements of Collaborative Capitalism

Putting It All Together: Collaborative Capitalism in Action

Looking Ahead

Chapter 2: Raising the Curtain on Impact Investing

Sizing the Market

Key Actors and Activities

The Fund Perspective

The Twelve Funds

Performance Numbers

The Impact Investing Fund Landscape

Part Two: Four Key Elements of Successful Impact Investing

Chapter 3: Impact DNA

A Means to an End

The Need for Clarity

The Impact Value Chain and Theories of Change

Getting Everyone Aligned

From First to Last: Measurement and Reporting

Bringing It Together: Sequencing the DNA of Impact Investors

Mission First and Last Approaches

The Mission First and Last Tool Kit

Chapter 4: Symbiosis as Strategy

The Practice of Policy Symbiosis

Public Sector Innovation in Alignment with the Private Sector

The Public Case for Impact Investing

The Policy Symbiosis Tool Kit

The Five London Principles

Chapter 5: The New Deal

The Terrain for the New Deal

Myths of Catalytic Capital

Four Purposes of Catalytic Capital

The Catalytic Capital Tool Kit

Chapter 6: Multilingual Leadership

New Skillsets for New Leaders

Multilingual Leadership in the Research

Multilingual Leadership as Cross-Disciplinary and Collaborative

Defining Multilingual Leadership for Impact Investing

The Multilingual Leader: From Individual to Team to Firm

Building a Multilingual Team: Acquiring Multilingual Capacity

The Multilingual Leadership Tool Kit

Beyond Impact Investing

Part Three: Looking Ahead: Trends and Challenges

Chapter 7: The Writing on the Wall

Chapter 8: Concluding Reflections

Ongoing Challenges for the Field's Development

Using the Right Tool for the Right Problem

The Road Ahead

Impact Investor Resource Guide

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

More from Wiley

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Tables

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Table 3.1

Table 3.2

Table 6.1

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The Impact Investor

Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism

Cathy Clark

Jed Emerson

Ben Thornley

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Tables and Figures

Tables

Table 2.1

The Twelve Funds: Size and Strategy

Table 2.2

The Twelve Funds: Financial and Social Performance

Table 2.3

The Twelve Funds: Capital In and Capital Out

Table 3.1

Investment Thesis of Change Examples

Table 3.2

Elevar Equity's Core Impact Themes

Table 6.1

Sector Concepts and Quotations

Table RG.1

The Mission First and Last Tool Kit

Table RG.2

The Policy Symbiosis Tool Kit

Table RG.3

The Catalytic Capital Tool Kit

Table RG.4

The Multilingual Leadership Tool Kit

Figures

Figure I.1

Impact Targets of the Twelve Funds

Figure I.2

Fund Investors and Financial Performance of the Twelve Funds

Figure I.3

Aggregate Impact of the Twelve Funds

Figure 1.1

Primary Purpose of Business According to the Millennial Generation

Figure 1.2

The Collaborative Capitalism Pyramid

Figure 2.1

Actors in the Impact Investing Industry

Figure 2.2

Investment Continuum for Market Development

Figure 2.3

The Impact Investment Ecosystem

Figure 2.4

A Model of Fund Performance and Growth

Figure 2.5

Investor Base and Investment Strategy of the Twelve Funds

Figure 2.6

The Four Types of Investment Funds

Figure 3.1

Impact Value Chain/Logic Model

Figure 3.2

Theories of Change Example, Constructed for Grameen Bank

Figure 3.3

Impact Investing Impact Commitment Spectrum

Figure 3.4

The Impact Investing Fund Life Cycle: Mission First and Last

Figure 4.1

A Policy Framework for Impact Investing

Figure 4.2

Example of How Policy Has an Impact on a Fund and Investees

Figure 5.1

The Capital Stacks in Deutsche Bank's Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium I

Foreword

When I reflect on impact investing and its prospects of growth to a size somewhere between the $100 billion of microfinance and the $3 trillion invested in private equity and venture capital worldwide, I often think back to the origins of venture capital—the starting point of my professional life.

Venture capital was a response to the needs of tech entrepreneurs, just as impact investing is a response to the needs of a new generation of social entrepreneurs who seek to make a meaningful difference in improving people's lives.

No one had thought of creating ten-year, illiquid funds, investing in small companies with very limited track records of performance, led by young people with no business experience. The response came because people sat around a table and said, “We see the future, and we have to provide the tools for it.” When I set up what became Apax Partners in 1972, few in Europe knew what an entrepreneur was, and fewer still believed that entrepreneurs would achieve much of consequence for our daily lives. Forty years later, they have completely transformed our world.

The microchip, the PC, the mobile phone, and the Internet, with its search engines and instant access to information and people, have revolutionized the way we live. They have brought a transformation as momentous as that which followed the creation of the alphabet and the invention of printing. Entrepreneur-led companies have overtaken those that led their fields for nearly a century. IBM was overshadowed in the space of a couple of decades by a start-up named Apple, which is now the largest company in the world by market cap; Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Oracle made it from start-up to being among the world's top thirty companies in just three decades.

The tech entrepreneurial revolution was driven by innovation and risk taking. It transformed the mind-set of governments about how economic growth should be achieved. In the United States, in the space of twenty-five years, it has been estimated that fifty million jobs were lost by smokestack industries, while sixty million jobs were created by new companies.

Our prospect now is to provide social entrepreneurs with the financing they require, and in this important book, Cathy Clark, Jed Emerson, and Ben Thornley provide the first detailed insight into how that financing has—and widely ought to be—provided.

However, even as the outstanding funds profiled in The Impact Investor work tirelessly to pioneer a new “Collaborative Capitalism,” there is much work to do building market and public policy infrastructure to help a new generation of entrepreneurs replicate their success.

The Social Impact Investment Taskforce and the Role of Government

Understanding this need for infrastructure and the paths to its creation has been the charge of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce, announced by UK prime minister David Cameron in June 2013 and established by the G8. By the time this book is published, this group, which I have been privileged to chair, will have just concluded its deliberations and published its report.

The Taskforce included a private and a public sector member from seven G8 countries and the European Union (EU), and observers from Australia and development finance institutions; it held hearings in different countries and created four working groups and seven National Advisory Boards to advise on the enabling infrastructure for impact investing in various local contexts. In total, the Taskforce has engaged more than two hundred of the world's foremost experts on impact investing in responding as vigorously as possible to the social challenges we face.

The Taskforce has played a particularly valuable role, clarifying the role of government in impact investing and informing the approaches of its different member countries by sharing examples and lessons from efforts in each jurisdiction.

For the United Kingdom's part, Bridges Ventures, which is featured in this book, provides one of the earliest examples. Bridges Ventures was created as an outcome of the UK Social Investment Task Force fourteen years ago, which I was also privileged to lead, and, after securing half of the funding for its first fund from HM Treasury, has gone on to become one of the largest impact investors in the world, with more than £400 million under management in both the United Kingdom and soon in the United States—an exemplar of what this book calls “Policy Symbiosis.”

Another piece of enabling infrastructure in the United Kingdom that is particularly powerful is Big Society Capital, an investment “wholesaler” with £600 million of equity capital to invest in social investment intermediaries, comprising £400 million that has sat unclaimed for fifteen years in bank and building society accounts, and an additional £200 million from the United Kingdom's four largest commercial banks.

Big Society Capital has already put the United Kingdom in the lead in terms of its market structure and number of social impact investment participants. Two dozen social impact investment intermediaries of significant size exist: Big Issue Invest, Bridges Ventures, Charity Bank, ClearlySo, Impetus-PEF, LGT-Berenberg, NESTA, Social Finance, Social Investment Business, and Unlimited, to name but a few. Virtually all of these have been backed by Big Society Capital, which is building capital flows to these and other social organizations through equity, social impact bonds (SIBs), and unsecured and secured debt. At the start of 2013, £25 million was in impact investment managers' hands in the United Kingdom; at the start of 2014, the sum was over £150 million.

From the United States we have much to learn from the experience with the Community Reinvestment Act and the New Markets Tax Credit, which together bring more than $20 billion of investment a year to poorer areas of the United States. The US federal government has also provided outcomes funding for SIBs and is actively engaged in promoting impact investment through the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.

In France, capital flows into social organizations have benefited from allowing pension contributions to go to funds that invest 7 to 10 percent of their assets in tackling social or environmental issues.

And across the EU, the European Investment Fund is leading the effort to develop impact investment management firms running sizable funds.

Optimizing existing ecosystems to support social entrepreneurship and investment is one important role for government. A second is to be a constructive commissioner of impact investment, focusing not on the layers of cost that impact investment necessarily involves but on the cost per successful outcome. And a third focuses on international development, where $150 billion is expended every year in aid, and governments are looking for more innovative and effective approaches to tackling the challenges of economic development and the social issues that constrain it, such as literacy, child malnutrition, and illness.

Addressing Constraints on Economic Development

Social entrepreneur after social entrepreneur, investor after investor, governmental minister after minister, and countless business leaders and financiers all came before the Taskforce and argued that a revolution was needed in the way we tackle social issues. Government resources available for this fall far short of increasing social needs. This is why I think that impact investment's time has come.

But to make progress, we must clearly understand the challenges at hand, and focus considerable energy on removing remaining barriers so that the breakthrough in thinking that has enabled impact investing—namely, the measurement of social outcomes and their linking to financial returns—really does provide social entrepreneurs with the keys to the capital market.

Cathy, Jed, and Ben define and describe a practice of Collaborative Capitalism that is broad—with the power to influence all business and finance—yet driven by impact investment that is initially concentrated in private markets, just as tech venture capital was.

Impact investing is indeed both an “approach,” across asset categories, and also a part of the alternative assets class, where it offers a unique form of private investment that is largely uncorrelated to public markets.

Similarly, international economic development is a core objective for many impact investors—we are all for the incidental impacts of regular commercial activities in low-income communities, such as job creation—yet economic development is insufficient in and of itself. We must also address the constraints on economic development internationally, through the provision of services to tackle such problems as literacy and school dropout rates, the eradication of disease, training of the unemployed, and so forth. Driving capital through development impact bonds (DIBs) toward tackling these social constraints on economic development is one example of what the impact investing movement is all about.

Again, the lynchpin is the realization that social outcomes can be measured, for interventions on everything from recidivism, homelessness, foster care, and educational dropout rates, to malaria, early detection of diabetes, and sleeping sickness eradication.

I believe that within five years, we will know the costs of an intervention for most social issues, the savings government can yield from an intervention, the price a philanthropic donor or a government is paying in the market for the particular outcome, and the greater value to society—the secondary and tertiary effects—of someone being rehabilitated, for example.

The Taskforce is providing guidelines for metrics and benchmarks in dealing with key issues. Conventions will be set over time just as we have accounting conventions for, say, recognition of revenues in a software company. There will be professional firms carrying out independent verification, and organizations to gather information and make useful comparisons.

In the United Kingdom, we see, in private asset classes, financial products that strike directly at important social issues. SIBs are among them, representing a particularly innovative proposition by connecting financial performance directly to social outcomes. If average returns delivered are on the order of 7 percent, as expected, and these returns are “uncorrelated,” because recidivism rates, adoption rates, and other social measures do not fluctuate with the stock market, this low correlation will offer valuable diversification benefits. If these returns hold up over time, this should lead to allocations to impact investing of several percent of total assets in most portfolios.

The Contours, Challenges, and Transformative Potential of Impact Investing

The authors of this book trace the history of impact investing back to socially responsible investing and the impulse to integrate environmental, social, and governance factors in public markets. I too am enthusiastic about an increasingly impactful approach to investing in public companies and look forward to seeing investors reward strategies designed with a measureable social outcome in mind. Among the actors emerging in impact investing are larger corporations focused on specific impact projects. Group Danone, for example, has created Grameen Danone Foods, a yogurt factory in Bangladesh whose mission is to help reduce childhood malnutrition, increase children's growth, and improve their concentration in school.

I also see a role in impact investing for corporations as outcome funders and mentors for charitable service providers addressing issues relevant to a corporation's business. For example, a company selling health products might want to be one of the outcome funders alongside government and health maintenance organizations for social impact bonds that seek to reduce the number of prediabetics contracting Type 2 diabetes.

For what are becoming known as “profit-with-purpose companies,” sometimes known as “for-profit social enterprises,” an important challenge will be “locking in” mission through special-purpose corporate forms, such as the B Corporation in the United States. Socially driven investors want assurance that these businesses will not abandon their mission. Corporate structures that enable entrepreneurs and investors to know that the mission of the business will be locked in beyond a sale of the business are an increasing feature alongside the presence of measureable social objectives.

Impact investing may reach scale sooner by capitalizing for-profit businesses, but it is likely to be most transformative for nonprofit, charitable organizations. In the United Kingdom alone, there are 160,000 charitable organizations, including many service providers to the less well off. Most are small and have no money. In 2000, the UK Social Investment Task Force estimated that three-quarters had insufficient capital to look ahead more than three months; more recent annual surveys of the US nonprofit market by the Nonprofit Finance Fund paint the same picture.

Figures from the United States also illustrate the problem of inadequate resources. Despite three-quarters of a trillion dollars in US charitable foundations, and nine million people employed in nonprofits, very few US service providers have managed to raise the funding necessary to achieve scale. Over a period of twenty-five years, fifty thousand US businesses have successfully crossed the line of $50 million in sales. How many nonprofits have done so in the same period? Just 144.

The primary reason nonprofit organizations face this predicament is that traditional philanthropy has focused on the act of charitable giving rather than on achieving social outcomes. It has given charitable organizations money for two or three years and then, as a well-intentioned sanity check, directed them to raise money elsewhere after that—oh, and not to waste any of it on their overheads.

Yet if business entrepreneurs had come to me at Apax with business plans that involved investing nothing on overheads, I would have shown them the door. The combination of unpredictable funding and lack of investment capital has prevented almost all charitable organizations from realizing their potential effectiveness and scale.

Philanthropic foundations have a special role to play in driving innovation in nonprofit organizations, and are gradually rising to the challenge. Some foundations now seek to measure outcomes from their grant activities, by way of qualitative if not quantitative criteria. Some are beginning to see impact investment as a very focused complement to philanthropic grants. Some are using their endowments to attract investors, as the Rockefeller, Bloomberg, and Pritzker Foundations have done by taking first-loss positions ahead of third parties. Some charitable foundations are beginning to see themselves as the natural drivers of impact investment, especially the kind that carries the greatest financial risk and the potential for the highest social return. They think it natural to achieve their social objectives through some direct investment from their endowments.

All investors will find this an informative and valuable book, a must-read for anyone serious about impact investing and sustainable business more broadly. For investors interested in improving people's lives, the book lays out a refreshingly detailed overview of the area. And Cathy, Jed, and Ben's predictions in their final chapter include many powerful ideas, including a number that chime with the work of the Taskforce: integrated reporting, the globalization of financial innovation, new concepts of fiduciary duty, and the importance of corporate and stakeholder alignment.

Impact investing, more than anything, needs leadership. And this leadership does need to be cross sector, or, in the authors' terms, multilingual. We need it from investors in a position to pilot entrepreneurial ideas; from larger, commercial institutions whose participation is helpful to scaling the sector; from philanthropists and foundations, who can take risks to catalyze impacts; and from policymakers, who can help create a multisector playing field more conducive to improving lives.

In truth, there are no more excuses for any of us not to act. Social outcomes can be measured. Governments are open to the best ideas on how to move forward. Investors are participating as the right products become available. The rise of impact investing requires only that we coordinate our efforts and, with careful urgency, bring the “invisible heart” of markets to help those whom the “invisible hand” has left behind.

Sir Ronald Cohen

Chair Social Impact Investment Taskforce Established by the G8

Preface

Picture…

…making an investment recommended by the local broker managing your retirement savings and then pulling up an app on your phone that shows the affordable housing development in your community that the investment is helping finance.

…seeing a news article on the need for more employment opportunities offering sustainable wages, benefits, and professional training for the people of your region and then reviewing the investment report from a local fund quantifying the precise number of jobs it had supported with your capital.

…collaborating with your start-up team to launch the business you've been planning for the past few years—and knowing there are investors on the other side of the term sheet as interested in the social relevance and intentional impact of your venture as they are in its financial health.