Private Equity Impact Investing
In this video, Gavin explores the viability of impact investing, i.e. achieving both financial and social returns on investment, and outlines where this concept relates to private equity.
Overview
Impact investment is an investment strategy which explicitly combines the dual objectives of financial returns as well as social good, with the underlying idea that there need not be trade offs between the two. Dedicated impact funds still represent a small minority of total private equity investors today. The still open questions in impact investment are firstly, how to measure social returns; and secondly, whether it is really possible to achieve dual returns without trade offs.
Key learning objectives:
How impact investments are structured
The context of and players in impact investment
The intersection between private equity and impact investment
Summary
Expert
Gavin Ryan
Gavin Ryan has twenty years’ experience as a private equity fund manager. He has managed a $30m Advent International Affiliate Fund, a $200m Fund part of Soros Fund Management and a €2.5bn Green Energy Asset Manager. Before he was in investment banking with HSBC and Nomura. Gavin has an Engineering Degree from Cambridge and an MBA from McGill.
