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Details: Alfi is hosting a Microfonance & Impact Investment Conference at the Espace Namur in Luxembourg-Hamm on 29 April.
The event organised in partnership with the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) attracted around 150 industry professionals, practitioners and researchers from a broad variety of national and supra-national organisations, banks and asset management companies, investment funds and Microfinance Institutions from Luxembourg and abroad.
Is the creation of an environmental or social impact by a company or an organisation no more than a
by-product that, at best, pays off indirectly through a positive corporate image? To what extent should asset managers encourage corporations they invest in to create social impact? Can a company actually generate additional income by directly marketing the social impact it is creating? Is the active marketing of social impact even a precondition for achieving a return on impact investing - and for making social impact investable? And if so, how can social impact be priced? What does really matter: generating measurable social and environmental impact or a financial return?
These are only a few of the questions that will be discussed at the 2015 Impact Investing and Microfinance Conference organised by the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) in collaboration with the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP), and the Luxembourg Fund Labelling Agency LuxFlag.
08:15 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome & Introduction
09:15 - 09:55 OPENING KEYNOTE SPEECH: Sony Kapoor, Economist, Direct, Re-Define think tank
09:55 - 10:30 Less optimism, more realism : microfinance for (somewhat) better lives, by Daniel Rozas, Senior Microfinance Expert European Microfinance Platform, Luxembourg
10:30 - 10:50 Refreshment Break
10:50 - 11:30 Mobile technology and new innovative services for inclusive finance; Moderator: Philippe Breul, Managing Partner, PHB Development, Belgium
11:30 - 11:50 Refreshment Break
11:50 - 12:20 SOCIAL IMPACT BONDS DESIGNING FOR SUCCESS: Emilie Goodall, Director of Projects, Impact+
12:20 - 13:00 How to make Social Impact Investable? Moderator: Harry Hummels, European Liaison Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), The Netherlands
13:00 - 14:30 Networking buffet lunch
14:30 - 15:10 THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY - OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVESTING IN A RESTORATIVE ECONOMY: Jamie Butterworth, Independent Expert Advisor tothe Ellen MacArthur Foundation
15:10 - 15:50 Pricing of social value; Moderator: Uli Grabenwarter, Co-Chair of the ALFI Responsible Investing Technical Committee
15:50 - 16:15 Refreshment Break
16:15 - 17:00 Regulation, labelling, structuring: initiatives to foster impact investing; Moderator: Anne Contreras, Co-Chair of the ALFI Responsible Investing Technical Committee
Venue: Espace Namur, Luxembourg-Hamm
Organiser: ALFI
Price: tbc
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