In 2012, IIX and Shujog encourage you to empower yourself to create change, starting with the strongest weapon in your arsenal: YOU! IIX and Shujog are launching the I-Factor Campaign this January, a movement that asks each person “What is your I-Factor?”.

It starts with a simple online test, helping you understand your strengths when it comes to contributing to social good, and harnessing them towards ACTION and EDUCATION. Once you ascertain your I-Factor, that’s when the real fun begins and we start connecting you with amazing people and ideas that are happening online and in your community.

Everyone has a role to play in the quest to making the world just a little bit better. Take the I-Factor test to find out your strengths in this mission and how they can be empowered for positive global change.

Take the I-Factor test today and start amplifying YOUR individual impact. 2012 is about making the leap. Start here!

IIX and Shujog are hosting our biggest Impact Forum to date on June 19 and 20 in Singapore as a culmination of our pioneering achievements thus far, including the upcoming launch of Impact Exchange – Asia’s first social stock exchange.

Impact Forum is a global conference focusing on examining the latest developments in Impact Investing and Social Enterprise in Asia Pacific. The Forum is bringing together over 500 participants-bankers, lawyers, social entrepreneurs, academics, and high government officials from across the globe. Utilizing IIX and Shujog’s on-the-ground experience and our extensive network of movers and shakers of the Asian Impact Investing and Social Enterprise spaces, the Impact Forum 2012 will provide a unique opportunity to learn, engage, and deepen experiences and relationships in these spaces. Register now!

“Social stock exchanges can make the world a better place, which goes back to what I thought capital markets should be doing all along,’ says Kraybill, managing director of Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX).”

Read the full article here and keep an eye out for the print edition due in February.

After opening remarks by David and a compelling introduction by Durreen, Alex and Robert sat down for a lively conversation on the state of impact investing and the evolving approaches that foundations and banks, among others, are taking to this emerging asset class – a topic to which Alex brought a unique perspective based on his current role at UBS and his former role as Chief Financial Officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Our audience, which included old friends as well as new, was treated to a first person account of the Gates Foundation’s historic decision to begin committing a portion of its endowment to impact investments. Alex also shared insights from some of the impact investments that the foundation undertook under his watch, including a guarantee of a pioneering bond offering by charter school operator Kipp Academy, which helped to catalyze private sector investment into this innovative section of the education market. Alex also shared his motivations for joining UBS and discussed the bank’s decision to devote significant resources to impact investment.

A lively Q&A included discussions of the importance of impact measurement to the development of the impact investment market, how investors think about the cost of capital when making impact investments, and the estimated potential of impact investing assets to grow to $1 trillion in the next 5 years and what it will take to reach this potential.

“A few shops have set out to build [impact investing] infrastructure. In March 2011, Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), run by former Morgan Stanley colleagues Robert Kraybill and Durreen Shahnaz, launched a platform called Impact Partners. For an annual subscription fee, Impact Partners gives investors information about social enterprises throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Chosen for their financial viability and their social or environmental impact, the enterprises featured on the platform focus on everything from microfinance to fair trade to sustainable agriculture.”

Read the full article here.

More information about the Shujog’s research can be found here.

BBC News also covered the event, interviewing Dr. Rodin about how investors “can help meet the world’s needs” and the role IIX can play. More information about the interview can be found here.

Videos of comments by IIX Founder & Chairperson Prof. Durreen Shahnaz and Rockefeller Foundation President Dr. Judith Rodin are available online.

RF_IIX_Durreen from gyneth tan on Vimeo.

RF_IIX_Dr_Rodin from gyneth tan on Vimeo.

The video of the panel discussion will be hosted online soon.  For immediate enquiries, please email gtan@asiaiix.com.

]]> http://www.asiaiix.com/2011/09/catch-robert-kraybill-at-socap11-in-san-francisco/feed/ 0 http://www.asiaiix.com/2011/09/impact-partners-and-mission-markets-implement-partnership/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=impact-partners-and-mission-markets-implement-partnership http://www.asiaiix.com/2011/09/impact-partners-and-mission-markets-implement-partnership/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:04:24 +0000 admin http://www.asiaiix.com/?p=1786 Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX) and Mission Markets remain committed to developing a relationship to achieve scale that will increase the flow of capital and unlock significant potential within the global impact and sustainability markets. We have begun to engage in a two-way referral process by which our public websites are now directly linked. Our members are encouraged to engage further in the extended investment opportunities presented by the partnership. In order to further strengthen the collaboration and cross-pollination across borders, IIX has also extended a limited time free trial* valid from now till 31st Dec 2011 to all Mission Markets members who are investors, simply type in this promotion code ‘MM2011’. Register now or to find out more click here.

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