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A ‘Bloomberg’ for Impact Investors

Can the new trend of impact, or social, investing live up to the hype? That question was debated earlier this week in the New York Times, on the back of a report by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation about its, largely positive, experience of investing for social good as well as financial returns. Matthew is quoted […]

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At Last! The Overdue Birth of Big Society Capital

Britain’s Prime Minister has cause for a small (nice cup of tea, rather than pop the champagne cork) celebration today, now that his Big Society idea has had its first positive headlines in quite some time, with the long-awaited launch of the £600 million Big Society Capital (BSC) social investment fund. BSC has cost the […]