SIBs viewed from the prism of British industrial housing. Liverpool’s Port Sunlight in this case but others abound such as Saltaire near Leeds while some posits that SIBs could also be used to impact any evidence of climate change…
Impact Bonds: Structured Financial Instruments Harnessing Private Dollars For Public Good
GRM
While there’s a sense that social finance is a very new phenomenon, the simple truth is there are examples of social financing and socially responsible investing at work going back hundreds of years.
A very visible example of social finance at work from over a century ago is Port Sunlight, a town built just outside of Liverpool, in northern England, where I used to live. In 1899, William Lever, who would later become Lord Leverhulme, founder of perhaps the world’s first multinational consumer goods company
Goldman Sachs Is Our Best Bet Against Climate Change
TechCrunch
Today’s products are just the tip of the iceberg. Solutions emerging include more ways to repackage debt such as renewable-backed securitized products or energy mezzanine financing, and financing constructs that generate revenue based on projected savings, such as social impact bonds