AVPN-亚洲：社会投资的领跑者（英）

ASIA: A FRONT-RUNNERFOR SOCIAL INVESTMENTAN OVERVIEW OF THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT LANDSCAPE IN ASIA2Asia: A Front-Runner For Social InvestmentAn Overview of The Social Investment Landscape in AsiaApril 2024AuthorAllison Hollowell, President, Elevate Impact AdvisorsAbout the reportThis report, published in the lead-up to AVPN’s 2024 Global Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, highlights the growing momentum and potential of social investment in Asia. It is a resource for the entire social impact ecosystem, including, but not limited to, philanthropists, investors, CSR leaders, intermediaries, and policymakers, offering insights into Asia’s unique landscape, and identifying key trends and opportunities to deepen social impact in the region. About AVPNAVPN is the world’s largest network of social investors active in Asia, with over 600 funders and resource providers across 33 markets. AVPN enables collaborations between policymakers, family offices, foundations and the private sector to increase the impact and flow of capital deployed towards closing SDG gaps in Asia. AVPN’s mission is to catalyse the movement towards a more strategic, collaborative and outcomes-focused approach to social investing, ensuring that resources are deployed as effectively as possible to address key social challenges facing Asia today and in the future.3Asia is the world’s largest and most populous region with great diversity across every aspect: economic conditions, cultures, religions, political systems, and infrastructure development. The social investment practices across its largest markets, namely, India, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, Japan and Korea echo this diversity. Given its distinctiveness to Western approaches, Asian social investment (encompassing the spectrum from philanthropy to impact investing) is worth exploring.In no other region of the world is there such a stark juxtaposition between prosperity and social and environmental challenges. On the one hand, there has been an exponential rise in wealth in this region, both in terms of self-made, first-time high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) as well as intergenerational wealth transfer. Asia’s wealthy families hold USD 24.7 trillion1 as of 2023 and the demographics are shifting— with self-made ultra-high-net-worth individuals under the age of 40 now making up 26% of Asia’s super-wealthy2 and an expected intergenerational wealth shift of 35% in the next 5-7 years.3On the other hand, Asia is not on track to meet any of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs by 2030. Climate action, life below water, life on land, decent work and gender equality are some of the biggest challenges to make up ground4. Meanwhile, the IMF estimates that temperatures are rising two times faster in Asia than the global average,5 with the damaging impacts of climate change being seen more quickly across many Asian countries than in the US or Europe.According to the OECD, globally an annual USD 4.2 trillio