Long Term Investment

Impact investing is investing that aims to generate specific beneficial social or environmental effects in addition to financial gain.

Today’s investors are facing a pattern shift; both in recognizing that old ways of doing business are no longer possible from a social and environmental perspective, but also in seeing the dissimilar competitive advantage of being a leader in sustainable business.  With a wave of millennials, the people who reach adulthood around the turn of the 21^st century, demanding portfolios that reflect their values and trillions of dollars in wealth transferred over the next decade, the industry ecosystem is certain to change. Yet there is an urgent need to move investors to practice and to foster opportunities for action, as those who do not act and establish will soon be faced with competitors who do. Impact investing appeals largely to younger generations, such as millennials, who want to give back to society, so this trend is likely to expand as these investors gain more influence in the market. By impact investing, individuals actually state that they support the message and the mission of the company in which they are investing, and they have a share in the company's welfare. As more people realize the social and financial benefits of impact investing, more companies will engage in social responsibility. Since impact investing has gathered steam, with metrics and case studies developed, it is gaining vast demands to anyone seeking to invest with social impact, even in small to medium markets. The long-term future of impact investing is promising, but is still an open question, as Brian Trelstad said. Citing socially minded funds like London-based Bridges Ventures where he is a partner, Trelstad outlined quick changes in the still evolving yet fast-growing field of impact investing. Shaping the Future of Impact Investing initiative aims to accelerate the systemic evolution from the short-term investment mind-set to one that focuses on long-term investments and sustainable impact, resulting in an increase in the flow of capital into impact investments. Ten years from now, a social investment firm will be a recognized entity and social investment a recognizable asset class. Social administrators of every age will have innovated in the ways we handle different social issues and they will be admired for it. 

 

Here is a video were Mark Laudi talks about long term and short term investment.

these are my sources:  

https://www.weforum.org/global-challenges/long-term-investing-infrastructure-and-development/projects/mainstreaming-sustainable-and-impact-investing

 

http://research.chicagobooth.edu/sei/about-sei/news/2015/july/future-of-impact-investing

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paula-goldman/impact-investing_b_3087510.html