From Impact First to 100% impact portfolio

Posted on November 19, 2019     Leave a Comment

Why don’t you have a 100% impact portfolio in which all your asset classes are deployed in impact investments? When I started investing I didn’t care a lot whether my investments had any positive impact or not; this was just an afterthought held somewhere in the back of my mind. I just was squarely driven […]

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Portftolio approach

Posted on October 7, 2019     Leave a Comment

This is my current impact investment portfolio. I have invested several times in some of these companies, at different stages of their life cycle.  Similarly to any other risk allocation decision, I try to hedge against company-specific risks (i.e. non Beta) by diversifying, which may bring my returns closer to market returns, nevertheless, I am […]

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Last mile delivery in India using E-bikes

Posted on September 30, 2019     Leave a Comment

Interview with Sameer Ranjan Jaiswal, co-founder and CTO FAE Bikes (*) Logistics/last-mile delivery: what is your competitive advantage? We are creating a niche for ourselves in the last mile logistics segment. Last-mile logistics using two-wheelers is a $10Bn+ market in India. Converting to electric offers a lot of economic and environmental benefits. Today, the demand […]

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