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Nordic Business Report: Impact investing is a rising trend

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Impact investing means investments made by companies, organisations or funds to generate a measurable social or environmental impact along with a financial return.

The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra has been building an operating environment for impact investing in Finland for about four years. The focus of the work is on Social Impact Bonds.

An article compiled by Mia Heiskanen from Nordic Business Report.

Read more: www.nbforum.com/nbreport/impact-investing-is-a-rising-trend/

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Impact investing

Impact investing helps promote well-being effectively and in a resource-wise way. It is a means of channelling private equity to projects whose aim is to achieve positive, measurable social benefit.

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Impact investing

Impact investing helps promote well-being effectively and in a resource-wise way. It is a means of channelling private equity to projects whose aim is to achieve positive, measurable social benefit.

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New working life and a sustainable economy

Sitra’s New working life and sustainable economy theme analyses new phenomena in the world of work and the economy as well as offers solutions for coping with their effects. We help individuals, companies and other organisations prepare for changes in working life and we also want to provide them with tools for this purpose.

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