Tag: Philantrophy
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Private Equity
Private equity consists of investors and funds that make investments directly into private companies or conduct buyouts of public companies that result in a delisting of public equity. The majority of private equity consists of institutional investors and accredited investors who can commit […]
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Microfinance
Microfinance refers to a variety of financial services—including loans, insurance and savings products—that target low-income clients. Resources Legal English Vocabulary: Microfinance in Spanish Online translation of the English legal term microfinance into Spanish: […]
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Corporate Social Responsibility
International Trade Meaning and Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility Meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility The responsibilities that corporations (including MNCs) have to workers and their families, to consumers, to investors, and […]
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Governance
is the exercise of economic, political, and administrative authority to manage a country’s affairs at all levels. Inincludes the mechanisms, processes, and institutions through which that authority is directed. It also recognizes that governance is exercised by the state, the private […]
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Additionality
Additionality is a term that refers to the additional impact that was achieved by the presence of an impact investor. It prompts the question of whether the same impact would have been achieved even without the presence of an impact investor.
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Additionality
Additionality is a term that refers to the additional impact that was achieved by the presence of an impact investor. It prompts the question of whether the same impact would have been achieved even without the presence of an impact investor.
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Benefit Corporations
A benefit corporation is a class of corporation that voluntarily meets higher standards of corporate purpose, accountability and transparency. The nonprofit B Lab certifies some benefit corporations; a corporation certified by B Lab is called a “B Corp.”
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Venture Philanthropy
Venture philanthropy works to build support nonprofits by providing them with both financial and non-financial support in order to increase their impact.
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Blended Value
Blended value is a framework that evaluates a business or nonprofit based on the ability to generate financial, social and environmental value. Blended value is sometimes used interchangeably with the terms “triple bottom line” and “social enterprise.”
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Negative Screen
A negative screen eliminates from an investment portfolio companies that partake in practices generally deemed detrimental to society, such as arms or cigarette production.
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Absolute Returns
An absolute returns strategy is one by which a fund invests across a range of different instruments and asset classes in order to hit a specific targeted return.
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Public Equity
Public equity is an asset class where individuals or organizations can buy ownership in shares or stock of a company through a public market, such as the New York Stock Exchange.
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Beta
A measure of an asset’s sensitivity to changes in the market portfolio (in the CAPM) or to a factor (in the APT). The beta of an asset j is computed as bj = rj,k (sj/sk), where k represents a market factor (such as returns to the market portfolio in the C…
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Impact Investing
Impact investing refers to investments made into companies, organizations and funds with the intention to generate measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.
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Risk-adjusted Returns
A concept that refines an investment’s return by measuring how much risk is involved in producing that return, which is generally expressed as a number or rating. Risk-adjusted returns are applied to individual securities and investment funds and portfolios.