This book provides a detailed study of the social impact funds industry. In particular, chapters focus on:
- The contextualization of social impact funds within the social impact investment market;
- The exploration of features, investment strategy and classification of funds;
- An in-depth analysis of the emergent literature;
- An analysis of case studies of impact funds;
- A synthetic assessment of the industry, conducted through a cluster analysis; The exploration of investment strategy and mission consistency of funds active in the market aimed to show funds attitude to be defined as “impact-oriented funds”;
- The investigation of determinants of funds’ target performance.