Thu 11 Jan 2024 - Please join us in this session where our speakers will share their practical experiences of impact investing.
James and Elisabeth will cover examples of social problems and the associated business solutions, outline a few outcomes-based revenue models and their associated payment structures, and how a unitranche social impact debt fund can act as a single provider of financing for asset-backed projects at scale.
Chair: Kedi Huang, Aspen
Investment Director, Big Issue Invest Fund Management
James joined Big Issue Invest, an impact-first fund manager and social investment firm, in 2019. He manages the £24m Big Issue Invest Social Enterprise Investment Fund II and the £75m Big Issue Invest Social Impact Debt Fund IV.
James has a background in corporate finance having spent 12 years at Rothschild Investment Bank where he was a Director within equity capital markets and debt advisory and also worked on European privatisations. He has 21 years of experience in investment and financing and has worked on over £10bn of capital markets transactions.
In 2015 he moved to the social investment sector at Numbers for Good, a social investment adviser and structuring firm where he advised social enterprise and charity boards for 4 years.
Chief Investment Manager at the Danish Social Investment Fund
Elisabeth Andreew is Chief Investment Manager at the Danish Social Investment Fund, where she has worked for the last 3 and a half years, and set up some of Denmark’s first social impact bonds. She is currently focusing on larger-scale investments within the healthcare area and attracting capital from investors in the private sector.
She most recently came from a role at Danske Bank, where she was responsible for the bank's strategic dialogue and collaboration with some of the largest Danish financial institutions, such as pension funds, fund managers and public institutions. She has previously also worked as a portfolio manager at Denmark’s largest pension fund, ATP, and within the research departments at Nordea and Danske Bank.
Elisabeth has an MSc in finance from Lund University in Sweden and completed the CFA programme (Chartered Financial Analyst) in 2015.
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