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Expert Opinions on topic areas can be a useful way of keeping up-to-date. To this end, a few of our Expert Opinions are being revised and new ones developed. If you would like to suggest an expert opinon on a particular topic, then please email your suggestion to administration@philanthropy-impact.org

Understanding Family Philanthropy
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Philanthropy can be a crucial building block for generous donors seeking to create multigenerational wealth within their family. Engaging in collective philanthropic actions can have many benefits: from enhancing family...
Philanthropy’s Unique Role in Impact Investing
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With increased attention from institutional capital, impact investing still needs philanthropy to play critical roles as both investor and field builder. All Sources of Capital are Not the Same Impact...
Are we giving supporters the right options to encourage planned giving?
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There’s no doubt about it; we have a rich tradition of charitable giving and incredibly strong fundraising industry in the UK. And yet, I question whether we’re offering a sophisticated...
Foundation grant-making at record level
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New results from the annual Foundation Giving Trends *1 show that in spite of a volatile economic environment, grant-making by the Top 300 foundations grew by a real 10.9% in...
Results-based financing for social impact: Mutual benefits and mutual gains
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Results-based financing is becoming an increasingly popular mechanism for investors to deploy their capital to generate social and environmental impact whilst also making impressive financial returns. This trend has come...
Charity Investment Performance Recovers
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The average UK charity fund returned 5.7% in the quarter to 30th June 2018, compared with a return of -4.2% in the previous quarter, driven largely by strong equity market...
Innovations in International Development: How Is Finance a Path to Impact?
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On June 20, 2018, C. Hoare & Co. hosted Philanthropy Impact, the UK non-profit focused on exploring the role of philanthropy as part of wealth management, and Lombard Odier at...
The Future of Financial Inclusion
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IT WAS IN 1987 that, following an altercation with my driver—whom I suspected wanted to take the car to his home to siphon out the excess petrol and sell it—I...
Professionalising Philanthropy
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In contrast to the somewhat bleak findings by Oxfam recently regarding global wealth inequality, reports and surveys are consistently confirming that philanthropy is growing in importance for UHNWIs around the...
The US-Europe divide in the development of impact investing
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The United States is the birthplace of many financial innovations, from exchange traded funds (ETFs) to digital payment platforms. Innovation is in the DNA of our financial system. In the...

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