Investing in Social Good Is Finally Becoming Profitable (Published 2020)

There are also promising cultural and macro shifts supporting a resurgence of entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and small businesses.

“Community ownership ... changes attitudes at the local level ... encourages greater diversity in the investor base and has tapped a latent, and lower-cost patient source of capital.” C4E, 2020

Today, there is broad support for a HIP mindset among consumers, employees, company leaders, investors, and their advisers. While the traditional belief espouses that seeking human, social, or environmental benefits in your portfolio requires an investor to give up financial returns, HIP’s in-depth findings show that optimized businesses require a

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What is different today is that definitive action is being demanded by a greater number of voices, at a larger scale than ever before — spurred by the overwhelming evidence that climate change will have a significant and detrimental effect on our way of life. The money flooding into ‘ESG’ funds has also highlighted the business opportunity for inst... See more

HIP offers a fundamentally new way of investing that gives each investor the power to choose what the most important leading indicators are, and to apply those preferences across multiple companies and industries. It is a more comprehensive approach than the financially-focused capitalists and a more inclusionary approach than the do-gooder investo

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