Two new reports published on Social Investment

The Taskforce on Social Impact Investment, which includes representatives from seven countries and the EU, makes a number of recommendations in its new report, Impact Investment: The Invisible Heart of Markets. Some of its recommendations have already been introduced in the UK, for example Social Investment Tax Relief and the introduction of “Big Society Capital” to lend money to build the social investment market.

The Taskforce’s report is accompanied by recommendations from a UK advisory board, which makes further suggestions such as that all pension funds should be required to offer a social investment option to individual investors as well as improved transparency around the level of bank lending into deprived communities.

CAF has also published its own report on the future of social investment: Returns Policy? What the next decade holds for social investment, which sets out eight recommendations on how the benefits of social investment can be maximised for charities. However, the CAF report notes that many charities would actually prefer cheap loans. To download the report please click here.