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Impact Investing: an emerging financial sector
Nicolas Hazard, CEO of Le Comptoir de l'Innovation, introduces the readers of Décisions Durables to a new segment of finance: impact investing.
Nicolas Hazard analyzes the steps that led to the development of a new segment of finance called impact investing. This emerging sector combines financial return and social return on investment. Impact investing companies must be profitable while aiming at maximizing their social, societal or environmental impact.
Impact investing should not to be confused with the Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) which values corporate social responsibility, but is not intended to address social and environmental issues.
Finance as a link
Nicolas Hazard, this young surdiplômé, which would meet last night in Paris, a thousand people around the theme of social entrepreneurship, likes to link the world of finance and help the poorest.
Social Entreprises are getting better Recognition
In order to tackle the problems of housing, health, education, food or employment, social enterprises have proven their efficiency in those fields. It is now from the State that the financial and juridical recognition has to be shown.
Funding Social Finance : Banks as a link
Whereas a draft law is about to be presented by the minister Benoît Hamon in July, the sector of social finance is currently thinking about the mutation of its funding sources.
