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AAA: Monitor Group Report Shows Impact Investing is Working

A new report from the Monitor Group shows that investment in developing nationsis becoming big business, with help from support from advocacy organizations, such as Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA) and high profile impact investors.

Boston, MA, June 04, 2011 -- A new report from the Monitor Group shows that inve

stment in developing nations is becoming big business, with help from support from advocacy organizations, such as Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA) and high profile impact investors.

The report, entitled Promise and Progress: Market-Based Solutions to Poverty inAfrica, outlines how foreign investors are increasingly aware of the money to bemade in socially and environmentally responsible investments. These can includeanything from supporting small businesses in Kenya, to investing in sustainableforestry plantations in Brazil.

The impact investing industry is small, but rapidly growing. High profile supporters include Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, who both have investment vehicles that

specialize in supporting aid by investing in businesses in Africa. Monitor Group partner, Mike Kubzansky, explained why impact investing is so important: Todayin Africa, more than 500 million people are struggling to subsist on $2 a day orless, and despite well-intentioned government policies and massive amounts of foreign aid and philanthropy, poverty rates continue to rise.

Impact investing is one of the best ways to help people living in developing countries to help themselves and their local areas by growing their small business,employing locals and giving the next generation something to look forward to. These market-based solutions engage poor people as customers, offering them socially beneficial products at prices they can afford, or as business associates suppliers, agents, or distributors providing them with improved incomes, added Mr Kubzansky.

The report from Monitor was published after analysis of some 439 enterprises innine sub-Saharan nations over a 16-month period. AAA, which analyses and advocates alternative investment opportunities particularly impact investing has welcomed the report on the success of impact investing.

AAAs partner Anthony Johnson said: These kinds of reports help to cement impact investing as a viable means of helping developing nations become stronger and moreself-sufficient. At the same time, we shouldnt overlook the chance to see positive financial returns from such investments, as the success of ethical projects in Brazil have demonstrated."

Firms such as Greenwood Management have shown that sustainable forestry is a lucrative industry to invest in within emerging economies, like Brazil.

Contact :Anthony JohnsonAlternative Asset Analysis71 Commercial StBoston, MA 02109-1320617-898-6317info@alternativeassetanalysis.comhttp://www.alternativeassetanalysis.com