MIINT engages a network of student-led MBA teams at prominent business schools across the country in a social impact investing competition. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Bridges IMPACT +, the advisory arm of specialist fund manager Bridges Ventures, will soon host the third annual MIINT competition for student-led impact investing teams. […]
Read moreBridges was delighted to be named ‘Investor of the Year’ at the 2016 EducationInvestor Awards. The award recognises Bridges’ track record of working with outstanding management teams to build high-growth, high-impact businesses in the education sector. This year’s highlight was our successful exit from Babington Group, a Derby-based apprenticeships provider, which was sold to RJD […]
Read moreWe were delighted to win the Investing and Financing category in the recent ‘Finance for the Future Awards 2016’, in recognition of the success of the Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund. This fund was the first of its kind in the UK: an institutional closed-ended fund designed to provide quasi-equity, plus strategic and operational support, to […]
Read moreMore than Measurement is a new report by Bridges Impact+ and Skopos Impact Fund. It describes our development of an ‘impact management’ approach – which we define as the management of assets in order to meet explicit impact goals (alongside financial goals). This paper has catalysed a global effort to develop a shared convention for describing […]
Read moreWe are very proud to have won the 2016 BVCA Responsible Investment Award for Overall ESG Framework for firms under £1bn in management. The BVCA Responsible Investment Awards seek to demonstrate that by managing ESG issues throughout the investment cycle, private equity can drive greater value in UK companies and build more sustainable businesses, making […]
Read moreFortune magazine looks at the rise of impact investing education in top business schools across the US, in response to the a rising demand from younger generations of MBA students. The magazine cites Bridges’ MBA Impact Investing Network and Training (MIINT) program as “a guiding force for impact investing at business schools”, and also looks at […]
Read moreThis Stanford Social Innovation Review article outlines some of the practices and methodologies used by Bridges and other impact investors to measure social impact alongside financial return. Based on an independent research project carried out by students at Harvard Business School, the authors argue that the ultimate objectives of impact measurement can be divided into four […]
Read moreBridges partner Brian Trelstad recently authored an article for the Harvard Business Review, where he outlined a framework to help potential investors think about how to invest for impact. In ‘Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing’, Brian explains how an individual investor can examine their own impact preferences by thinking about the […]
Read moreThe MIINT is an experiential impact investing program for MBA students, with more than 600 students participating from across the globe It culminates in a finals day at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where teams of students pitch a potential impact investment to a team of expert judges The MIT Sloan School […]
Read moreBridges Ventures (“Bridges”), the specialist fund manager focused exclusively on sustainable and impact investment, has issued a white paper examining the way forward for social impact bonds (“SIBs”).
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that our research paper, ‘Choosing Social Impact Bonds: A Practitioner’s Guide’, created in partnership with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has come in joint first place at the 2015 Sustainable Investment Awards. The report was the first piece of research that looked globally across the first wave of SIBs to […]
Read moreMichele Giddens, partner and co-founder at Bridges Ventures, and Patrick Armstrong, chief investment officer at Plurimi Investment Managers, discuss the U.N. COP21 summit on climate change and what it means for the markets and investments. They speak to Bloomberg’s Guy Johnson on “Countdown.” Michele on Bloomberg
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