Impact investment funds for frontier markets in Southeast Asia : creating a platform for institutional capital, high-quality foreign direct investment, and proactive policy making

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Machine generated contents note:Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Is New in This Analysis? -- PART I: IMPACT INVESTMENT: WHERE ARE WE NOW? -- 3. What Is Impact Investment? -- 4. Mandates of Impact Investment -- 5. Impact Investment and Conventional Investment -- 6. Impact Investment and SRI -- 7. Philanthropy and Donations -- 8. Separating Impact Investment Into Components -- 9. Social Impact Investing -- 10. Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise -- 11. Social Entrepreneurship -- 12. Social Enterprise -- 13. Characteristics of Existing Impact Investment Funds -- 14. Characteristics of Impact Investors -- 15. Making Impact Investible and Measurable -- 16. Social Impact Bonds and Development Impact Bonds -- 17. Challenges for Impact Bonds in the Frontier Markets in the ASEAN -- 18. Funds and Funding Mechanisms -- 19. Vertical Funds -- 20. Future-Flow Securitization -- 21. Front-Loading of Aid -- 22. Impact Investment Fund Setup -- 23. Diversified Impact Portfolios -- 24. Reducing Risk -- 25. Diversified Impact Portfolio Across the Value Chain -- 26. Selecting and Managing Investments -- 27. Positive and Negative Screens -- 28. Impact Criteria -- 29. Experience and Mindset of Entrepreneurs -- 30. Mission Lock -- 31. Summary and Outlook -- PART II: EMERGING AND FRONTIER MARKETS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA -- 32. Overview of the ASEAN Member States -- 33. Wealth -- 34. Investment -- 35. Current Account Balance -- 36. Constraints -- 37. Overview of the Frontier Markets in the ASEAN -- 38. Investment and Wealth -- 39. Capacity -- 40. Urbanization -- 41. Market Size -- 42. Industry Sectors -- 43. Summary and Outlook -- PART III: CURRENTLY AVAILABLE CONVENTIONAL INVESTMENT OPTIONS IN FRONTIER MARKETS -- 44. Frontier Market Investment Overview -- 45. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Mutual Funds -- 46. Private Equity Firms Active in Southeast Asia -- 47. Summary and Outlook -- PART IV: AREAS OF POTENTIAL IMPACT INVESTMENT INTERVENTION IN THE ASEAN FRONTIER MARKETS -- 48. Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) -- 49. Inclusive Development -- 50. Education and Entrepreneurship -- 51. Higher Education -- 52. Capacity Building and Entrepreneurship -- 53. Beyond Formal Education: Incubators and Accelerators -- 54. Sustainable Transport -- 55. Financial Infrastructure -- 56. Sustainable Urbanization -- 57. City Prosperity Index -- 58. Urbanization Trends: Mega-regions, Urban Corridors, City Regions -- 59. Cleantech and Renewable Energy -- 60. Disaster Preparedness and Water Safety -- 61. Medical Services -- 62. Thailand as an Example -- 63. Ecotourism -- 64. Sustainable Farming and Produce Processing -- 65. Sustainable Coffee -- 66. Large Potential for Sustainable Farming -- 67. Summary and Outlook -- PART V: CONCERNS AND COUNTERMEASURES -- 68. Perceived Lower Financial Return of Impact Investment and SRI Funds -- 69. SRI Funds Perform Similar to Conventional Funds, Outperform in Bear Markets -- 70. Risk, Return, and Correlation of Impact Investment -- 71. Size of the Impact Investment Universe -- 72. Remittances and Diaspora Bonds -- 73. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) -- 74. Complementing Development Assistance and Conventional Debt -- 75. Fiscal Health of Host Countries -- 76. Current Account Balance -- 77. Balance of Payments Cycle -- 78. Transparency of Frontier Markets in the ASEAN -- 79. Fraud and Victim Mentality -- 80. Economic Incentives and Impact Criteria Promote Transparency -- 81. Risks of Frontier Market Investment -- 82. Political Risk -- 83. Legal Risk -- 84. Operational Risk -- 85. Currency Risk -- 86. Counterparty Risk -- 87. Execution Risk -- 88. Liquidity Risk -- 89. Unquantifiable risk -- 90. Risk Management Strategies -- 91. Complicated Asset Sourcing and Management Process -- 92. Is There Enough Demand from Investors? -- 93. Investors Care for Social Impact -- 94. Change in Investment Thesis -- 95. Existing Programs for Sustainable Development -- 96. Action Plan for Private Investment -- 97. Summary and Outlook -- PART VI: HIGH POTENTIAL OF IMPACT INVESTMENT TO CATALYZE SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT IN FRONTIER MARKETS IN THE ASEAN -- 98. Complementing Existing Sources of Capital -- 99. Financial Aid Programs -- 100. Conditional Aid and Development Loans -- 101. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) -- 102. Impact Investment as a Complement to Other Capital Sources -- 103. Less Dependence on Commodity Price Volatility -- 104. High-Quality Foreign Direct Investment -- 105. Attracting Institutional Capital -- 106. Proactive Policy for Sustainable Development and Impact Investment -- 107. Summary and Outlook -- PART VII: A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE: BUILDING A PLATFORM FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND IMPACT INVESTMENT -- 108. Platform Thinking and Network Effects -- 109. Building a Platform for Sustainability and Impact Investment -- 110. Introducing Economic Motivators in Sustainable Development Goals -- 111. A Strategy to Move Forward.

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