Zimbabwe. Impact Investment: Powerful tool for pension funds
There is a growing trend for pensions funds to strategically invest in order to achieve their corporate societal engagement strategy. Impact investment, which support social change while making a financial return has become a powerful tool for institutions such as pension funds as well as insurance companies and corporates.
Impact investment, a term coined in 2007, is an approach in which, financial assets are invested with two objectives in mind: The first being to achieve a financial return white the second is to achieve a specific or deliberate, positive and measurable impact on society or the natural environment.
This measurable impact is usually the form of developmental outcomes, which communities and greater society can benefit from.
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