Humanitarian Investing – Mobilizing Capital to Overcome Fragility

The Peace Investment Fund (PIF), an innovative investment vehicle targeting multinational companies with important economic impact in fragile states, aims to employ financial tools to encourage peacebuilding. The fund only invests in companies that have a net positive impact according to the Peacebuilding Business Index co-developed by PeaceNexus and Covalence. This ranks the 300 most economically impactful listed companies in 76 fragile states according to peacebuilding criteria that extend beyond standard environmental, social and governance standards. More…

Source: World Economic Forum