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.
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.
By focusing on sustainable prosperity Goldcorp has started to see returns on its social investments.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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How do we define return on investment beyond financial returns, in terms of social impact and corporate responsibility?
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But today there are a range of philanthropic investment strategies available that simultaneously yield social and financial returns.
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 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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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.
That is feasible because market investment returns are so much higher than what Social Security even promises, let alone what it can pay.
That is because long term market investment returns are so much higher than any possible returns under completely uninvested, purely redistributive Social Security.
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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.
Recently, Vanguard has begun urging people to contribute 12% to 15%, including the employer contribution, because of the stock market's weak returns and uncertainty about the future of Social Security and Medicare.
Because long term market investment returns are so much higher than what Social Security even promises, let alone what it can pay, future retirees will actually enjoy higher benefits with the personal accounts.
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In his gloominess, Charlemagne missed an important point: the linguistic unification of Europe can yield economic returns in addition to the cultural and social ones enjoyed by those of us who speak English, whether or not it is our first language.
Yet over the past 18 months, hope has sprung eternal amongst IT and Internet venture investors driven largely by a daily barrage of blog and news headlines covering the exponential growth and dramatic returns prospects of a small handful of social networking and gaming companies.
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Electronic returns don't have to be entered into the system by hand, and the IRS's computers reject any returns with incorrect basic information such as Social Security numbers, birth dates (even of a child) and married names (they must match what is in Social Security records).
What makes MeXvi and FOMEPADE so special is that, while remaining a business with the potential to generate high financial returns, it simultaneously generates an extraordinary social impact by dramatically improving the quality of life of thousands of families who would not otherwise have the means to build and own a home.
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