How Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing Are Rebuilding the Markets as a Force for Good
The math doesn’t add up: Global philanthropic funds, even when combined with government aid, add up to billions of dollars. But solving the world’s most critical problems runs into the trillions.In Making Money Moral: How Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing Are Rebuilding Markets as a Force for Good, authors Judith Rodin and Saadia Madsbjerg shine a spotlight on the new innovations that enable private capital to close the gap and address everything from poverty reduction to carbon emissions reduction while generating competitive financial returns for investors. Pioneers in the field of sustainable and impact investing, Rodin and Madsbjerg offer real-world success stories of how investors of every type and in every asset class are investing in solutions being created by the world’s changemakers—entrepreneurs, public companies, philanthropies, government agencies, advocacy groups, and NGOs—with great success. They explore:
Why investors like BlackRock, Allianz, and Fidelity have helped pave the way to expand sustainable and impact investing
How the Seychelles, an archipelago of islands in the Indian Ocean, launched an innovative experiment to raise funding to support sustainable marine and fisheries projects and improve the livelihoods of its citizens
How DreamBox Learning, an online K-8 math program that uses its “Intelligent Adaptive Learning” technology to adjust teaching to students’ individual learning needs, attracted a $130 million investment from TPG’s Rise Fund
How Wellington Management’s Global Impact Bond is helping Brazil to address its challenges with contaminated water, which causes deadly diseases such as cholera
A roadmap to making the market a force for good, Making Money Moral is a must-read for those seeking transformative private capital to address a big problem, as well as those seeking to invest in big solutions.