Like any profit-seeking venture, impact investing — deploying investment capital toward sustainability or a social good — targets positive returns. For that to happen, investors first need access to reliable data to inform their decisions. For too long, information on impact investing trends and investment flows for Latin America has been in short supply, despite an active presence of impact financiers throughout the region.
A new report released last week has started to fill that void.
The report is compiled by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, the Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association — abbreviated LAVCA in Spanish — and LGT Impact Ventures, an impact investor. It surveys financial investment firms in Latin America on their general practices and transactions over a two-year period to determine the main trends in impact investing across the region.
About the author
Naki B. Mendozamfbmendoza
Naki is a former reporter, he covered the intersection of business and international development. Prior to Devex he was a Latin America reporter for Energy Intelligence covering corporate investments and political risks in the region’s energy sector. His previous assignments abroad have posted him throughout Europe, South America, and Australia.
