Incremental Value of Social Bonds
In the last video to this series of Social Bonds, Keith discusses the concept of social additionality, the idea whereby positive outcomes accrue solely because of the issuance of social bonds, and that the true investment in the social economy is inflated due to refinancing. If only new projects were included in market volumes, the gross size of the market would reduce dramatically.
Overview
Additionality refers to the positive outcomes of social or environmental projects that accrue solely because of the issuance of social, sustainable or green bonds; i.e. they wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
Key learning objectives:
What is additionality in the context of social bonds?
How would the social bond market look if only new projects were included in market volumes?
Summary
Expert
Keith Mullin
Keith is the founder and director of KM Capital Markets, a media and thought-leadership consultancy. He spent the past 35 years working in specialist capital markets media and has had a ring-side seat at all of the major market events. Prior to setting up KM Capital Markets in 2017, Keith worked at Thomson Reuters.
