With fundraising being challenging in recent years, here are five emerging trends in impact investment in Asia for entrepreneurs to note.

SFi and co-host UBS reconvene Asia’s second annual gathering for impact investors & purpose-led families.

Asian markets are poised for growth in impact investing, whose ingredients are embedded in its ‘culture of philanthropy and responsibility to the community’

The book, by Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of global non-profit impact fund Acumen, approaches social investment with an entrepreneurial focus Reading the book gave banker Katy Yung the courage to set up a community of impact investors in Hong Kong

Katy Yung, the managing partner of the Sustainable Finance Initiative, discusses why existing challenges such as quantifying effectiveness and fear of making a bad investment are hindering investors from backing impact-focused projects

In this conversation moderated by Maud Savary-Mornet, Senior Advisor for the South East Asia branch of Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)at the South China Morning Post’s Redefining Hong Kong event on “How can Hong Kong investors invest positively?”, panelists discussed impact investing and the metrics by which impact and financial gains are systematically measured.

Inadequate advice, finding quality investments, conducting due diligence and impact measurement remain key challenges for family offices.