CHAPTER 3

Impact Investment Tools, Structures, and Instruments

Impact investors pursue their investment and impact goals through the decisions they make regarding the impact investing products that will be included in their portfolios. These decisions should be guided by the investor’s governance documents (i.e., the impact investment statement and impact policy statement) and products may be selected from among a range of asset classes including the following1:

Cash: Cash is a low-risk and highly liquid asset class that can be deployed into impact vehicles, such as certificates of deposits in community banks, Green Bank deposits, linked deposit/guarantees with community development financial institutions, or short-term loan funds to social ...

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