Small Money, Big Impact: Fighting Poverty With Microfinance by Peter Fanconi and Patrick Scheurle

The Blurb On The Back:

Small Money Big Impact brilliantly illustrates what microfinance is, how it works and all the ways microloans and impact investing can be a socially and financially rewarding asset class.

Impact investing is a global megatrend and is reshaping the way people invest as pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, family offices and private investors jump on board.

However, more than two billion people still lack access to basic financial services so opportunities abound. This first-of-its-kind guide offers in-depth, yet accessible coverage to making a social and environmental impact, while benefitting from competitive, consistent and uncorrelated returns. Returns that have proven themselves for well over a decade.

Gain expert-level understanding of both the processes and investment vehicles used in microfinance as well as an awareness of the power this asset class has to enrich the impoverished.

- Explore the global impact investing phenomenon.
- Learn how microloans work, and how they make a difference.
- Discover why investors are increasingly leaning into impact investing.
- Consider the factors that inform impact investing decisions.

Small Money Big Impact has your complete solution to using a small amount of capital to make the world a better place and sustain a robust portfolio.

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The Verdict:

Peter A Fanconi is Chairman and Patrick Scheurle the CEO of Blue-Orchard Finance (an investment management company specialising in micro-finance) and this informative book (which, unfortunately, seems aimed at persuading people to invest in micro-finance companies and contains very little criticism of the structure or problems it may cause) they aim to explain the microfinance market and show the benefits its brought to people in developing economies.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.