Today, we went to the National Museum of Singapore where we were given a guided tour of the Economic Development Board (EDB) exhibit (“50 ye...

There is considerable debate in the social investing field about impact, and what makes an investment “social” This leads to the grand debat...

What is the role for incubation in Singapore? Stemming from a fascinating discussion with an American venture capitalist involved in incub...

Today, we went to visit Ikhlas, a social enterprise in Singapore. Ikhlas provides employment to X-convicts, endearingly calling them the X-M...

The Wall Street Journal published a truly pithy investment strategy piece this past week which made quite an impression. http://online.w...

I went to a medical conference recently, and one of the speakers asked the audience to share leaders that they admired. From an audience ...

I learned something very interesting this evening at dinner with my two lovely friends from Burma. These women are doctors who are training...

Stemming from a discussion with Durreen about a recent women’s leadership meeting that she attended, I started to think more about the what ...

The World’s First Stock Exchange was in Bruges, Belgium in the 14th century. Since then the stock exchange has undergone transformationa...

When you walk in, IIX looks like a typical Silicon Valley start-up, but’s it actually very different. In just two weeks, I have seen the ...

The Founder of Modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, famously said, “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys,” meaning that only stupid people will w...

What is so incredible about IIX’s own founding history, is that it’s a story of how one innovator took a concept, got key partners on board,...

The second question, I often get is “why Singapore”? I believe this question requires a much deeper understanding of how things work around...

When I mention social stock exchange, I am often met with blank looks. Adding the term “social” to financial terms tends to cause some conf...

Impact investing is defined as investments intended to create positive impact beyond financial return in the J.P Morgan Global Research Repo...

A social enterprise is defined by Wikipedia as “any for-profit or non-profit organization that applies capitalistic strategies to achieving ...

This summer, I am privileged and thrilled to work with Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), a start-up social enterprise based in Singapor...

If you are interested in social enterprises, impact investing, start-ups, Asia, empowerment, leadership, and stories of unreasonable people ...