Presentation of Patrick Somerhausen at the Inspiration Days Brussels at Solvay Business School. Patrick Somerhausen is a managing partner at Funds for Good. He completed his studies in Business (at Solvay Business School) and Private Asset Management (at ICHEC) and has gained professional experience in both the industry and entrepreneurship. He is one of the co-founders of this organization, whose aim is to bring about a sustainable wealth management combined with a strategy that understands the consequences for the future.To generate the social impact, the organization donates from its own revenues, instead of cutting into the saver’s financial return.

1. Patrick Somerhausen – Funds For Good

2. I am…
Patrick Somerhausen
Nicolas Crochet
Marc Verhaeren
Managing Partner, Funds For
Good
Ingénieur de Gestion, Solvay
Business School
Diplômé en Gestion de
Patrimoine, ICHEC
14 ans d’expérience dans
l’industrie et en Entreprenariat
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Managing Partner, Funds
For Good
Licence en Sciences de
Gestion, Louvain School of
Management
14 ans d’expérience dans
l’industrie financière
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Managing Partner, Funds For
Good
Ingénieur de Gestion, Solvay
Business School
MBA Kellogg School of
Management
16 années d’expérience en
Consultance Stratégique &
Entreprenariat

3. Why social entrepreneurship
?
• My life plan
• Some questions about the futur of capitalism …
• What do I do the best ?
• Give SENS to my profesionnal life

6. Funds For Good
We develop and promote investment
and savings products
With a new and unique business
model : we share our own profits and
turnover with philanthropy

7. Business Model

8. Funds For Good

9. POSITIVE CONSUMPTION
Consommation responsable
More responsible
More ethical
More social
de produits financiers performants
More ecological
More respect
Le nouvel ISR :
Priorité = performance du placement
Finalité = impact sociétal concret

10. Social impact
For some people … the best or only
way to land a job would probably be
to CREATE one themself
 « Quasi-equity » loans
 Partnership with microfinance instit
30 entrepreneurs supported in 2013
Part of the King Boudouin Foundation

11. Social impact
 Restaurant ethnique Ethiopien –
Femme – 54 ans
 Entreprise de logistique –
Homme - 40 ans
 Snack Bio – 2 Femmes – 30 ans
 Entreprise énergies renouvelables –
Homme – 33 ans
 Crèche d’accueil – 1 Femme – 64 ans
 Dépôt de boulangerie – 1 Femme et 1
Homme – 31 ans
 Agriculture – 1 Femme – 63 ans

12. Business model
1. Promotion of investment
strategies from partner “asset
managers”
• BLI
• Azure Partner
Target = institutional investors in
Europe
2. Promotion of our own funds
• Common sense
• Defensive
• With a decent return
Target = private investors trough
partners (brokers, banks) in
Belgium
Size of the business :
• 3 founders
• 100 Millions AUM
• … Growing

13. Innovation
• The innovation is our business model
• It opens lots of opportunities
• In Finance
• Outside …

14. Rentability
• How does the fact that you’re a social
entrepreneur influences your profit?
• We keep 50% to finance the growth of the company
• We give 50% to philanthropy instead of dividend
• What are the financial advantages/disadvantages
of being a social entrepreneur?
• It clearly helps us to get new markets and volume
• It’s a good marketing argument … AS YOU ARE TRUE

15. Challenges
• How did your company develop? Revenue,
marketshare, customers, employees, social
impact,…
•We made lots of partnerships
• We get the support of a board
• Which difficulties did you have to face?
• Recurrent business, but very slow and we have very
llimited resources

16. Evolution
• Which evolution have you noticed in social
entrepreneurship?
• More and more people tend to this, your generation
• It is no more for dreamers / hyppies / …
• Do you think the number of social entrepreneurs
will grow in the future?
• Yes, it has to and it will
• Find the good business, profitable

17. Advantages
• What are the benefits of being a social
entrepreneur?
• Marketing of commercial help for your business …
• MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD AND PROUD

18. Conclusion
• As any entrereneur
• Dare
• Keep fighting for your project
• Get help from anyone
• And …
• Be true