• Hong Kong can be a ‘super connector’ for impact investing – financial secretary at AVPN conference

    Paul Chan says Hong Kong is uniquely positioned to channel capital for good, while Naina Subberwal Batra opens the AVPN annual conference with a call for Asia’s impact community to take the lead in building a more inclusive world.

  • Better Business Standard launched to offer ‘affordable and procurement-ready’ impact accreditation for UK SMEs

    New accreditation, launched by the Better Business Network, aims to reduce barriers for small businesses to prove their  impact while aligning with government net zero and social value policies.

  • Rethinking impact finance in Medellín: five hot ideas from Latimpacto’s annual conference

    Nurturing the Amazon’s bio-entrepreneurs and switching the power balance with investees are just two of the potentially transformative ideas for impact finance discussed during this week’s Latimpacto conference in Medellín.

  • What is child-lens investing?

    IMPACT 101: What does child-lens investing actually involve, who’s doing it – and what prevents more investors from jumping in? Find out in our latest explainer, with Save the Children’s Mauricio Preciado-Awad.

  • Gentrification or regeneration? The Edinburgh social enterprise helping a community navigate transformational investment

    Good Stories podcast episode 6: With £1.3bn being pumped into one of Scotland's poorest areas, social enterprise The Granton Project is ensuring that local communities truly benefit. Our reporter David Lyons finds out more.

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The balance of power

It's not just the job of investors to assess the capabilities of social enterprises seeking investments, the enterprises themselves also hold substantial power – they just don’t all realise it yet. 

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Money is dead: an introduction

In our cover feature for the Autumn edition of Pioneers Post Quarterly, we consider the following question: what will it take to make social change as desirable as money?

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Bankers in social investment: disease or cure?

"No sector has a monopoly on saints or scallywags." Rodney Schwartz, CEO of leading social investment organisation ClearlySo, contemplates both the harm done and progress made by ex-bankers in the social investment sphere.

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Investor Profile: Paul Robinson

CEO of disruptive asset management firm Alquity and co-founder of One Water Paul Robinson explains why responsible investing and investing in the people at the bottom of the pyramid makes business sense.