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Blended Finance 1.0.1

The purpose of blended finance is to attract capital to impact investing by pooling risk and then redistributing it in such a way that it addresses the financial and impact objectives of various investor types. Philanthropic capital is relatively scarce compared with financial capital. To attract more capital, of all types, to fund impact investments,
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Ten Second Into The Future 2024

Inflation has dominated investors’ attention since 2021. In 2023, core inflation cooled from 6.6% to 4.0%, a significant move yet well above the 2.0% target of the Federal Reserve. Meanwhile, the Fed raised rates 4 times from 4.50% to 5.50% and while it signaled that market expectations for rate cuts in 2024 might be premature,
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Blended Finance 1.1

Blended finance is an efficient mechanism for intermediating capital in impact investing. There is scope for further development.  An important innovation would be to establish a correspondence between impact (shortfall) risk and credit risk. This would require a generally accepted standard and framework for measuring and analysing impact metrics with a view to translating such
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Environmental and Social Imperatives

Our Mission is a simple one. We have only this planet to support us and must therefore maintain its habitability so that we may persist. The gargantuan scale of this mission requires that we collaborate as a species. We will not be able to collaborate with a broken social compact. This contextualises the environmental and social
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Environment and Social Impact. Public Goods. Private Capital?

What sets us apart from the planet’s other tenants is our ability to collaborate. We are the most intelligent known species on the planet, but even this intelligence pales before our ability to work together. This ability to collaborate has allowed us to not just live with what we have, but to shape our environment
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