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Macquarie Podcast: Spotlight on Social Finance

Workforce & Economic Mobility

This podcast episode features a conversation between Macquarie Group’s Shawn Lytle and Social Finance’s Tracy Palandjian. The conversation focuses on Social Finance’s work on innovative financing models such as the Social Impact Bond and the Career Impact Bond.

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If you rewind the clock, impact investing was born out of this recognition that we have massive social challenges and that philanthropy and the government alone aren’t sufficient to solve these big challenges. We’re aiming to disrupt this worldview organized around the premise that for-profit investments should only generate financial returns and that social challenges should only be addressed by philanthropy and government.

Tracy Palandjian

CEO and Co-Founder, Social Finance

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Header photo courtesy of the Macquarie Podcast.

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