16:45 - 18:15

Marc Brammer (United Kingdom)
Head of Business Development - MSCI ESG Research

William Davis III (United States of America)
President - GATE Global Impact LLC

GATE Impact - Electronic Global Platform (marketplace) for Impact Investing

Impact Investing is a progressive new philosophy whereby an investor proactively seeks to place capital in businesses that can both generate financial returns and further the intended social and environmental goals. GATE Impact will centralize the way impact investments are made by applying established innovative technology to create market infrastructure, and also provide portfolio management, informational content, and the metrics necessary to measure and manage the performances of these types of investments.

Arthur Wood (United Kingdom)
Founding Partner - Total Impact Advisors

The Hague Financing Framework - "Financing the future today"

Two meetings hosted by FMO and the Tallberg Forum of 75 of the leading practioners in development from DFI's to Civil Society met
• To identify new systems and innovations that move in real scale – to demonstrate new impact investing models – “Proving by doing”;
• To identify a template into which much social innovation would fit;
• To identify how this innovation can be blended together to create greater impact focused on tangible outcomes delivered collaboratively by multi stakeholders;
• Noting the twin needs to generate employment in the developing world given “Southern” youth demographics and to increase public sector productivity in the “North” given levels of fiscal stress specific focus is made as to how government can create an enabling environment.

Vivina Berla (The Netherlands)
Senior Partner and Managing Director Europe - Sarona Asset Management

Impact Investments in Frontier Markets Outperform the Market

We have been an Impact Investor in Private Equity for almost 60 years. In our experience, targeting ethical, social and environmental excellence - targeting impact - helps businesses outperform their peers financially. Conversely, concessionary capital has the potential to do more harm than good in these markets. We argue strongly that the best aid that one can provide to poor communities in developing countries is rigorous capital. We equally argue that the best financial returns one can deliver to investors is through the targeting of social and environmental impact.

Michele Giddens (United Kingdom)
Executive director - Bridges Community Ventures Ltd.

Impact Investing in Developed Economies - Spotting Sustainable Growth Opportunities

Bridges Ventures has been investing for almost ten years in entrepreneurial growth businesses in the UK in four impact themes: underserved areas, education, environment and health. We are finding that businesses with the potential to help solve pressing social and environmental needs are still able to find strong growth, even in the depressed economic climate in the western world. This may be because those social and environmental needs have different drivers from those in the overall economy. There is much talk about the power of impact investment in emerging markets. Is there also an opportunity for investors to make a difference in more developed economies and combine that with robust and attractive returns?