This document discusses impact investing for inclusive markets and financial systems. It covers three main topics:
1. Building the capacity of firms or building the capacity of the entire market system. It argues that focusing on the entire market system may be more effective for achieving scale.
2. The different types of coordination and investments needed, including "soft" investments like grants as well as different investment instruments tailored to opportunities.
3. The potential of a sector-based approach to impact investing that focuses on investing in innovators, bringing more resources to sector infrastructure, and engaging in policy issues, in order to accelerate entire industry sectors and achieve greater scale and impact.
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Impact investing for inclusive markets and financial systems at SEEP Annual Conference 2013
1. Impact Investing for
Inclusive Markets and
Financial Systems
Paula Goldman, Omidyar Network
Frederick Kellett, Aga Khan Foundation
Maria Cavalcanti, FIRST Brazil Impact
Roger Oakeley, Springfield Center, Moderator
Investment at the Frontier
November 6th, 9am-10:30am
SEEP Annual Conference 2013
Partnerships and Cross-Sector Approaches
2. Impact Investing for Inclusive Markets
& Financial Systems
November 7th 2013
SEEP Annual Conference 2013
Roger Oakeley
3. Why Inclusive Markets?
• The poor – excluded
• The firm – seeks to apply more
inclusive practices
• How do better practices become
the norm to impact at scale in The
market?
Impact
• Improved practices are
common – not isolated
models
Sustain
-ability
• Improved practices are
driven by the
commercial incentives of
competitive advantage
Scale
• Other market players
recognise the
competitive advantage of
first movers
4. Building firm capacity...
Supporting Functions
Infrastructure
Skills
Information
Related
services
Infrastructure
Skills
Related
services
Information
Inclusive
Business
Inclusive
Business
Standards
Regulations
Informal
rules &
norms
Laws
Enabling Environment
Informal
rules &
norms
Standards
Regulations
Laws
Complexity? Cost?
Realistic?
5. ..or building market system capacity?
Private sector
Supporting Functions
Infrastructure
Skills
Information
Related
services
Inclusive
Business
Civil society
Standards
Regulations
Membership
organisations
Informal
rules &
norms
Laws
Representative
bodies
Enabling Environment
Government
Reducing the
transaction
costs facing
all firms
7. Market systems development building on lessons learned
USAID MicroLinks
http://microlinks.kdid.org/
The Market Systems Development Platform – tbc
‘Making Markets Work for the Poor’ (M4P) Approach:
- The Synthesis
http://www.springfieldcentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sp0806.pdf
- The Operational Guide http://www.springfieldcentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sp0804.pdf
The Springfield Centre for Business in Development
http://www.springfieldcentre.com
Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)
http://www.enterprise-development.org/page/m4p
The Monitor Group, 2013:
“The scale, range and complexity of market failure...is
such that the odds are stacked against any one firm
attempting to address and overcome these failures”
8. Priming the Pump:
The Case for a Sector Based Approach
to Impact Investing
#PrimingThePump
10. A Fundamental Shift is Needed
To scaling entire industry
sectors
From just growing
individual firms
11. “
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“
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Single firms are born, they mature,
they get lazy and they die. But industries
prosper over time and reach scale as
competition fosters the delivery of better
products at lower cost.
Alvaro Rodriguez, IGNIA
13. Priming the Pump
1. Invest early stage in innovators
2. Bring more resources to sector-based infrastructure
3. Engage seriously on sector-based policy and
regulatory issues
14. Market Adoption
1. Investing in Innovators
Time
INNOVATORS
RISK
RETURNS
MF
EXAMPLE
SCALERS
High
Medium
Highly Variable
Commercial
Grameen Bank
SKS
Example: Grameen
Bank
15. Total Impact of Bridges
International Academies
TOTAL SOCIAL IMPACT
OF BRIDGE ACADEMIES
MILLIONS OF
STUDENTS SERVED
DERISKING OF
SECTOR
18. Policy and Politics – India Example
# OF ACTIVE
MFI BORROWERS
IN INDIA
35
30
25
20
15
10
MILLIONS
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SOURCE: Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX)
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Overall framing: want to talk about the future of impact investing and it's true promiseImpact investing coined seven years ago, tons of enthusiasm, lots of capital waiting on the sidelines for deals perfectly derisked, high financial return
Narrative; the key here is to shift markets - to go in early and de-risk new socially impactful models that otherwise would never get to market, but can have massive impactMF is a case in point-- started as grant capital, then breakeven, then commercial capital got tappedin the process it touched hundreds of millions of lives.yes, MF not perfect. I'll address some of those shortcomings in this presentation.but the idea here is that THIS is the true promise of impact investing. to seed entire new industry sectors- to scale them up to reach millions. It's not just about funding companies that might have gotten funded otherwise.
What we need to do to get there: The first part is shifting our thinking from firms to sectorsNot new – in terms of individual
Managing systemic riskKnowledge and peer to peer learning best practicesTransparency and standardsBetter than Cash – Citi, USAID
India IIICG8
We have the potential to do the same as we did for microfinance - but more smoothly/correcting errors - with many new industries
Intangible- capacity building, human resources and network – e.g. school standards and assesmentsTangible- those things from which all players benefit – in MF credit bureau
Any small shifts in the right direction affect tens of millions of lives. We are eager to collaborate with all of you on the path forward.