Q&A: How to get involved in social investing

SOCIAL INVESTING

Phil Caroe, COO at charitable social investment organisation Allia, explains how investing in social issues could benefit your portfolio.

What is social investment? We define social investment as the provision of finance for the purpose of achieving specific social outcomes and the expectation of receiving back at least the original amount invested. With social investment, the primary purpose is to invest in organisations or structures that are set up specifically to address certain social issues. These investments might be expected to return anything from just principal to a market rate return. What does that look like in practice? Social investment could be as simple as a loan to a charity to enable it to undertak...