White Paper: Re-think Risk, Return, Impact

While markets understand financial risk-return tradeoffs, the addition of impact outcomes to investing needs closer integration with these existing frameworks. Some of these challenges relate to historical assumptions of risk, return, outcomes, and governance from public, private, and philanthropic sector marketplaces that have been adapted to date.  While much critical work has gone into impact measurement, new investment funds, and pioneering organizations, leaders still struggle with formulating clear objectives and making choices across the broad blended return spectrum.  These challenges create basic communication obstacles to the efficient flow of resources and information across the ecosystem.