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Social performance and impact investors - link with SDGs

par Ishimwe, Marie Grace
Président du jury Hudon, Marek
Promoteur Lapenu, Cécile
Publication Non publié, 2020-08-27

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The world is facing issues that need collaboration from Government and Private sectors toprovide solutions to the problem it is facing. There is a need for Investment in financialservices and social business to achieve inclusive growth and economic development.However, investment from Government is not enough and there are a financing Gap andsome poor people are still excluded in the mainstream Banks.To overcome that Gap, there is a growing market of Investment that target social issue togenerate positive impact in the society while promising a financial return, Impact Investing.Currently, the market is growing stage they choose to align their investment are alignedwith The Sustainable Development Goals to measure their return on investment.Following the literature review and the research of (2018-2019) Impact investors report,this thesis used qualitative methods to analyse their report to understand what they reportand collect on their investees.In Data analysis, I have found that the impact report provides information on theorganization input to its clients, what support they provide such assets under management,or portfolio and their collection on investees. They also include SDGs as a measurementof impact. The SDGs indicators show that investing in one sector enables the achievementof other Goals. Through the execution of the analysis, I have found that Grofin hasprovided the best report of (2018-2019) because its detailed information on their clientsand measurable return on on investment.I have also found that Impact investors are investors that are guided by their social purposeto finance sectors related to development such as Financial institutions, Agriculture, andenergy by promising financial return. they choose to finance social business in Developingcountries Using Debt, or equity as the main instruments in their financing activities.In return, they are promoting financial inclusion in their investees through the increase ofaccess to financial services, Financing Women busines, rural clients and in Digital financeproducts by also giving technical assistance and capacity building to their clients to ensurethat they are making a better financial decision making and achieve social performance bycreating jobs.