影响力投资 / impact investing

「释义」
影响力投资是指对产生积极的社会与环境影响,并伴随一定财务回报的投资方法。影响力投资可以投资于企业、社会机构或基金,并同时发生在发展中市场与发达市场,可以说是一种义利并举、公益与商业相融合的投资。
「应用场景」
随着对稀缺性和不平等担忧的逐渐加剧,许多投资者渴望在商业和社会两方面均产生回报——“行善事,得善果”。其中途径之一是影响力投资:将资本引导到能产生社会和环境效益以及利润的初创企业。但这里存在一个问题:尽管商业世界有几种放之四海皆准的工具,例如估算潜在投资财务收益的内部收益率,但没有类似的方法,以美元为单位计算对社会和环境的回报期望值。预测此类收益通常只能通过猜测。
As concerns about scarcity and inequality become increasingly urgent, many investors are eager to generate both business and social returns—to “do well by doing good.” One avenue is impact investing: directing capital to ventures that are expected to yield social and environmental benefits as well as profits. But there’s a problem: Although the business world has several universally accepted tools, such as the internal rate of return, for estimating a potential investment’s financial yields, no analogue exists for evaluating hoped-for social and environmental rewards in dollar terms. Forecasting gains is too often a matter of guesswork.
以上文字选自《哈佛商业评论》中文版2019年1月刊《影响力投资的价值》
克里斯·艾迪(Chris Addy) 玛雅·科灵格(Maya Chorengel) 玛丽亚·科林斯(Mariah Collins) 迈克尔·埃泽尔(Michael Etzel)丨文
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