Today's investors not only want a financial return on investment, but also social, economic and environmental returns. Impact investing has emerged as the next step in matching socially conscious investors with capital-seeking businesses.
Impact investing is rapidly gaining momentum and could represent a trillion dollar market in the next decade. Unfortunately, this new asset class has traditionally lack transparency and liquidity. However, new alternative investment platforms are seeking to facilitate impact investment funding at a large scale.
In this talk, former President of Mexico Felipe Calderon will discuss the evolution of impact investing and his vision for social enterprise. Vincent Molinari, CEO of GATE Global Impact, will discuss the development of new marketplace infrastructure to deliver efficiency and transparency to impact investing.
This Latinos in Tech session at the Holiday Inn is FREE and open to the public. However SXSW Interactive, Film, Gold and Platinum badges gain priority seating.
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