How can institutional and private investors safely invest into private equity funds?We provide a review of the private equity fund industry and a description of all the relevant management issues of fund investments, from an individual investment to a risk and portfolio management perspective....

The paper discusses the challenges of social and environmental impact measurement for fund investments. It suggests that information needs on social and environmental impact are different for various stakeholders in the impact investing value chain and that ways of measuring and expressing...

The paper develops arguments for the need of a new form of legal entity for social enterprises that allow the co-existence of for-profit and non-for-profit shareholders within the capital structure of a company. The paper is the basis of the legal form of the Société d'Impact Sociétal...