The question is whether social returns from high-speed rail are high enough to justify investment.
The social returns to government basic research investments, for instance, should be your baseline.
Joshua Mailman, a prolific seed investor focused on early-stage ventures working for a more just and sustainable world, has generated strong financial as well as social returns through impact investing.
Social Security returns a fraction of what would be available to seniors if the accounts were privatized.
My interpretation is that stakeholders periodically get their hopes up for something new or different, and then info they get from a variety of controlled and social sources returns them to their prior understanding of the firm.
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We need to harness the capital markets and create institutions that deliver both social and financial returns.
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But today there are a range of philanthropic investment strategies available that simultaneously yield social and financial returns.
With this approach, because standard, long term, market investment returns are so much higher than the implicit returns paid by completely noninvested, pay-as-you-go Social Security, all workers who exercise the personal accounts would receive more in benefits through the personal accounts earning standard long term returns than the Social Security benefits they replace.
Impact investing refers to the intentional use of investment capital to create positive social and environmental outcomes along with financial returns by investing in for-profit social enterprises.
Rather than hindering financial returns, social enterprise offers a huge competitive advantage in the unpredictable global economy.
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Socialware has launched a product called Voice to monitor the returns from social media by measuring leads and client retention.
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Even small businesses are experiencing good returns through social investment.
To that point I would say it is precisely in this kind of long-term challenge, where there are demonstrable and potentially irreversible social effects, with returns accruing over periods beyond commercial discounting, that government must play a clear role.
The greater point is that if the federal government loses some of our Social Security savings, or simply achieves lousy returns, we have no legal right to empty our Social Security accounts in favor of outside managers.
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By focusing on sustainable prosperity Goldcorp has started to see returns on its social investments.
Each of these funds has earned far better returns than has Social Security.
Some of them don't have to file tax returns and the Social Security Administration doesn't finish processing its 2007 earnings information until June.
The idea of social investing, as opposed to ordinary investing, is that the money raised is used to generate social as well as financial returns.
Year after year about one-third of all EITC returns are based on illegal multiple returns, phony Social Security numbers, or claims of non-existent children or spouses.
Many analysts have criticized the poor returns promised by Social Security, but under current circumstances, it would not be possible for a private plan offering the same risk profile to do any better.
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He also pushed his plan to lower federal income tax rates, make Social Security taxes deductible from federal returns, and eliminate the estate tax and the so-called marriage penalty tax.
In addition to their traditional charitable giving activities, mission investors explore investment opportunities consistent with their philanthropic goals in for-profit social enterprises, revenue-generating nonprofits and socially responsible companies that will produce social benefits as well as financial returns.
How do we define return on investment beyond financial returns, in terms of social impact and corporate responsibility?
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Premiums are tied to income based on information from prior years' tax returns and then deducted from Social Security payments.
Although we could get financial returns from some of the social entrepreneurs in our portfolio, we have elected not to.
Second, while privatisation may generate greater returns for some individuals than Social Security, it cannot solve the funding problems that already exist.
The one concern that caught my attention, however, is the critical issue of measurement of social impact and its link to investor returns.
Moreover, it appears that social networking is a classic increasing-returns business, and Facebook was good or lucky enough to leverage it better than anyone else.
We are also excited by the growth of impact investing, which aims to address social or environmental challenges while generating financial returns that can range from a return of principal to market-rate financial returns.
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Social Security promises most young workers today real returns of only 1.5% or less, counting the actuarial value of all promised benefits.
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