Many impact investors have asked the team at Community Capital Management, “How are you able to customize impact portfolios – especially in a mutual fund? How does it work?” It’s a great question, and this short video walks through the process from beginning to end.
Category: Impact Investing
You’ve heard of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and maybe even The Giving Pledge, which requires participants to give away half their wealth. Did you know there is a similar initiative around impact investing? Some of the most influential families around the globe formed a group called The ImPact whose signatories […]
The National Alliance to End Homelessness reported that on a single night in January 2015, 564,708 people were experiencing homelessness—meaning they were sleeping outside, in an emergency shelter or in a transitional housing program. The good news is that since then, 33 states concentrated in the South and Midwest in […]
The flagship impact investing bond strategy at Community Capital Management enables investors to target their impact investments whether in a separate account or a mutual fund (CRA Qualified Investment Fund). In our recent webinar, we dedicated time to discussing some of the most frequently asked questions we hear from investors:
In support of Long Term Care Awareness Month, the impact investment pioneers at Community Capital Management (CCM) want to focus this blog on an issue that will become increasingly important in the coming years. While November is the month to shine a spotlight on long term care, at CCM, we […]
The discussion during a panel titled “Mainstreaming Impact Investing” at this year’s Social Impact Conference sponsored by Wharton’s Social Impact Initiative, focused on millennials and how they are interested in investing with purpose. Christopher Geczy, an adjunct professor of finance at Wharton, noted that he believes we’ve reached a tipping […]
These terms are often used freely, but they aren’t interchangeable. It is essential to understand—and be able to explain—the differences between socially responsible investing and impact investing so investors can make informed decisions. In their most basic forms, socially responsible investing and impact investing are very similar. They both seek […]
“Impact investors are those who are conscious of the existence of serious unjust situations, instances of profound social inequality and unacceptable conditions of poverty affecting communities and entire peoples.”– Pope Francis, “Investing for the Poor” Vatican Symposium on Impact Investing (2014) Religion and finance are two topics that rarely intertwine […]
With the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season upon us, we thought it would be a good time to highlight one of CCM’s seventeen impact investment themes: disaster recovery. Investors who choose disaster recovery as an impact theme are supporting various community development activities in federally-designated disaster areas and disaster-prone areas to […]
The term “green bond” is receiving more and more attention, not only because of the growing demand for ESG investments, but also because the “green” label is so ambiguous. Perhaps the lack of a clear definition is partly a result of the approximately $576 billion universe of unlabeled green bonds. […]