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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and] In January, Oxfam announced it would team with the asset manager Symbiotics to launch the Small Enterprise Impact Investment Fund (SEIFF), based in Luxembourg. But times have changed.

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Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing

Harvard Business Review

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g., Intensity and immediacy of impact.

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