Gosling's Grouse: Should you try impact investing?

GOSLING'S GROUSE

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Impact investing is an expression you may not be currently familiar with, but it is a type of investing I think is slowly turning into a major asset class.

It sits somewhere between uncorrelated investing and ethical investing. You do not have to have a conscience to consider impact investing, but it might help. An open mind is probably essential. Simplistically it is an investment that aims to produce a commercial rate of return from a pool of private capital, but where the underlying investment aims to produce a social good. The most high-profile impact investment is a so-called prison bond linked to a group of offenders from HMP Peterborough. A group of wealthy private investors raise a significant sum of money that is then used to ...

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