Divine Chocolate announces transatlantic merger, TOMS Shoes come out on top in a Good Company poll in the US and Bridges Ventures invests in education.
For the past three years the teams at Allia and Canaccord Genuity have been engineering a new social investment machine that is opening up big bucks for charities and making social investment more appealing to mainstream investors.
If you want to "transform lives in a way that hasn’t been achieved before, you need the disruption that social investment creates," says Jeremy Swain from Thames Reach. He talks investment readiness and SIBs with Ellie Ward.
From an insight into social investment activity in South Asia and the launch of a new UK charity retail bond, to UKIP's mysterious charitable donation and Russell Brand's social enterprise, here's our weekly innovation digest.
Dialogue about impact investment between developed and developing countries, and the need to invest in women are two key issues for debate at the Sankalp Forum in Delhi next week. We put five questions to Forum director Aparajita Agrawal.
Specialist fund manager Bridges Ventures is backing the first social impact bond in the world specifically designed to help people with long-term health conditions including diabetes and heart disabilities.
Politicians and advocates of social investment must minimise social investment hype and the role of Big Society Capital should be reconsidered, concludes a new report by the Alternative Commission on Social Investment.
Former Labour MP Les Huckfield claims the organisations promoting social investment are "not reading their own reports". Social investment doesn't address the harsh reality on the ground, he claims.
Renewable energy and agriculture are among the sectors offering "great potential" for a strong impact investing market to develop in Bangladesh, reports Pioneers Post's Ellie Ward from Dhaka.
