This book examines funding platforms for impact investing known as
social stock exchanges (SSE) and ways to approach impact investing at
regulated traditional exchanges. The book analyses the antecedents and
prerequisites for the successful implementation of SSEs. It presents the
creation of SSEs as a necessary step towards a more democratic and
popular impact investing market, and a way to align the asset search
process for investors with capital access for entrepreneurs. It also
analyses the installation of impact investing at traditional stock
exchanges drawing from Green Bonds and Social Bonds.
The book showcases successful financial structuring, integrating impact
into existing financial products. It discusses standalone impact
solutions, the status quo of impact investing, social entrepreneurship
and the pros and cons of platforms versus the use of traditional stock
exchanges for impact investing. It highlights aspects of adjusted
portfolio and product structuring, innovation in the context of listing
criteria and makes proposals for impact stock listings at platforms and
traditional stock exchanges.