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Profiting From Our Pain: Privileged Access To Social Impact Investing, Cary Martin Shelby Jan 2021

Profiting From Our Pain: Privileged Access To Social Impact Investing, Cary Martin Shelby

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Social impacting investing has become the latest trend to permeate the financial markets. With massive anticipated funding gaps for sustainable development goals, and a millennial-driven thirst for doing good while doing well, this trend is likely to continue in the coming decades. This burgeoning industry is poised to experience yet an additional boost, since it provides an alternative mechanism for private actors to “profit from our pain,” particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

As to be expected, the law has not sufficiently adapted to this new wave of innovation. Scholars have thus …