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Panellists discuss ways to achieve social value and investment returns

Perhaps adopting different accounting practices might help; bodies like Gates Foundation offer grants in return for access to useful technologies

Published Tue, Oct 29, 2019 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

INDIVIDUALS and organisations no longer have to choose between building social value and business value, the chief executive officer of Temasek Trust said on Tuesday.

Cheo Hock Kuan, in her welcome speech at the Temasek Trust Conversation (TTC), said social enterprises and impact investing show that it is possible to achieve long-term "social value" alongside sustainable returns.

Temasek Trust, set up by Temasek in 2007, is an independent trustee of philanthropic endowmen…

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