Impact Investing explained - Healthcare

Impact investments seek to co-align financial and social interests in a single strategy and can provide a strong degree of congruence between investments and the values and beliefs of the investor. Many impact investments offer 2% - 8% annual returns as well as an opportunity for portfolio diversification. Impact investors should consider their risk profile and requirements for financial return, and the areas of most interest.
The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), a UK based charity, raises funds globally to be used to support immunisation, health system improvements and vaccine procurement programmes in more than 70 developing countries worldwide. The primary mission of IFFIm is to help achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, particularly the reduction of the world’s child mortality rate. IFFIm’s work will lead to the vaccination of more than 500 million people until 2015, preventing the deaths of 5 million children and 5 million adults. IFFIm raises finance by issuing bonds in the capital markets and so converts long-term government pledges into immediately available cash resources. The long-term government pledges will be used to repay the IFFIm bonds. A range of currencies and yields are available to investors.

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