The Role Debt Plays in Impact Investing


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Bhakti Mirchandani, who writes impact investing stories on Forbes, has a new insight around impact investing.

Bhakti writes that a most surprising leader in the impact investing boom is debt. In fact, she finds out that at 26% of impact AUM, private debt is the largest asset class within impact investing.

She shares that there's an enormous opportunity for lenders, who are increasingly inserting impact-oriented provisions into credit agreements.

Bhakti writes this article with the aim to provide emerging and seasoned private debt impact investors with a framework for impact provisions in loan agreements. She states that this article, and Professor Deborah Burand's, Co-Director of the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU Law School, work focus on the provisions that are unique to impact investing.

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