Social Impact Investing Beyond the SIB

Download or read book Social Impact Investing Beyond the SIB written by Mario La Torre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a preliminary attempt to understand the impact investors’ preferences and characteristics. It offers an empirical insight of the main features characterizing social risk of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and explores the correlation existing between social risk and financial return. It assesses case studies of social impact investment architectures and their legal and operational limits. It also analyzes new trends in social impact measurement, focusing on the Spanish and Swedish experiences. The book concludes with a road map of priorities and policy strategy for social impact investments development.