The Challenge of Impact Investing

Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

Impact investing seeks to make the world a better place through its investments.

As with all investing, it comes with its own challenges.

Most impact investments underperform the market. 

The focus on providing social or environmental benefits degrades the financial return.

Some researchers claim that impact investing receiving market returns is not having an impact, and those delivering an impact end up with below-market returns.

The challenge is finding an impact investment opportunity that provides enough of an impact to offset the lower return.

It’s important to measure the impact the company provides and follow it over time to know that it is making a real difference.

In many impact startups, the social or environmental impact is not clearly defined. 

The impact investor must identify a company actually providing the stated impact, then the investment must actually increase the company’s measured impact.

Impact investing encourages companies to provide a social impact, but there must be a measured result to determine how effective it is.


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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Justin Breen, Founder, and CEO of BrEpic Communications LLC and BrEpic Network, and author of the No. 1 International Best-Selling Book, “Epic Business”.

Headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, and founded in 2017, BrEpic Communications LLC will run your social media sites, write clicky stories that highlight you or your business, and find the right pitch for multiple media outlets. 

BrEpic Network is an invitation-only, premium connecting platform for the who’s who in business, philanthropy, and global leadership. BrEpic Network will bring simple yet powerful technology to this network of visionary leaders and connectors. Leaders want instant, credible, vetted access to other leaders, and they want results in a deliverable fashion. BrEpic Network will allow that to happen at an exponential rate.

Justin is an extremely active member of Strategic Coach 10x, Abundance 360, and Entrepreneurs' Organization, and he has an incredible global network of visionaries and exceptional businesses.

Justin reviews his book by telling us the inspiration behind it, the primary audience, the most important takeaway he found, and more.

Visit BrEpic Communications LLC and BrEpic Network at www.BrEpicLLC.com and www.BrEpicNetwork.com, on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/brepiccommunicationsllc/, and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BrEpicComm. 

Reach out to Justin at justin@brepicllc.com, on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/justinbreen1, and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BrEpicBreen. 
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