Read the full Your Mark on the World article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/1o3G3nG. urt Bassett has spent the bulk of his career managing money and was among the first to begin using the label "impact investing" to describe the strategy of investing money for both positive social impact and financial returns. Today he runs Impact Investment Leaders and is actively crusading to expand the movement toward impact investing. Curt is passionate about the lasting effects that investing for impact can have on wealthy families, allowing them keep their money growing and doing good past the third generation. Curt will also be speaking at the Social Enterprise and Crowdfunding Conference (SECFC14) on September 26, 2014 at Snowbird. More about Impact Investment Leaders: We help high net worth families, philanthropists and traditional investors achieve their personal, corporate, social and financial goals through impact investing. We help them achieve "triple impact" from their investments in social enterprises both for-profit or nonprofit. Our proprietary leadership and leverage strategies maximize three types of impact for impact investors: 1) Social Impact (their positive impact on their causes and communities), 2) Financial Impact (both market rate and below-market rate returns); and 3) Investor Impact (the non-financial intangible returns experienced by themselves, their families and their employees).  Curt's bio: Curt Bassett is an attorney and investment advisor with 30 years of experience as a both a financial services corporate executive and advisor to some of America's wealthiest families, private foundations, financial services firms and nonprofit organizations. He is CEO and Co-Founder of Impact Investment Leaders with offices in Park City and New York City (formerly Princeton Social Capital out of Princeton New Jersey). Prior to founding IIL, he held 3 positions at Merrill Lynch: Senior Vice-President of Merrill Lynch Trust Company, Director of Merrill Lynch Family Office Group's offices in New York, New Jersey and Texas; Director of Merrill Lynch Strategic Philanthropy and Family Foundations.

• published: 26 Jun 2014
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