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Impact Investments

Prudential committed to building a $1 billion impact investment portfolio by 2020.

Long before the term “impact investing” was coined, we recognized that our financial capital could – and should – do more than generate a financial return. During the Great Depression, Prudential’s farm and home mortgage business went to great lengths to help customers avoid foreclosure. After World War II, Prudential established a loan department to provide financing to small and medium enterprises that were desperately in need of capital. These business lines still exist in some form today, living proof that being a responsible corporate citizen and focusing on long term outcomes is actually good for business.

2014 Commits to building a $1 billion impact investment portfolio by 2020

How We Work

Our strategy targets three core approaches, with the goal to have a positive, measurable impact on a pressing social challenge across our shared focus areas. We believe that impact measurement is a critical tool to gauge the success of our investments and utilize third party standards and measurement tools wherever available.

Social Purpose Enterprises – We invest directly and indirectly in for-profit and nonprofit social purpose enterprises that create affirmative social good. As a GIIRS (Global Impact Investing Network) Pioneer Investor, we have an investment preference for GIIRS-rated companies and funds to measure social impact.

Prudential was the lead investor in supporting the launch of the Freelancers Insurance Company, a social purpose business owned by Freelancers Union. Founded in 2009, it provides high quality, affordable health coverage to over 25,000 freelancers and their families, 37 percent of whom previously lacked coverage.

Financial Intermediaries — We support community banks, microfinance institutions and nonprofit financial intermediaries that are able to redeploy institutional capital to nonprofits, small businesses and individuals.

Prudential helped launch The Disability Opportunity Fund, the first ever Community Development Financial Institution focused exclusively on housing and other social services for individuals with disabilities. Since its inception, Prudential remains its largest investor.

Real Assets – Capitalizing on the company’s deep roots in urban communities such as Newark, NJ, we continue to invest in real assets that improve the lives of both individuals and communities at large.

Habitat for Humanity International developed the FlexCAP Program to provide liquidity to its local affiliates and generate more building activity. Since 1997, Habitat has raised approximately $156 million in FlexCAP financing for more than 280 affiliates. Among the first institutional investors in the FlexCAP program, Prudential has invested over $32 million to date and is the program’s largest investor.

Our Portfolio

Since 1976, Prudential has invested nearly $2 billion in impact investments, of which $300 million has been deployed in our headquarters city of Newark, NJ. We invest across a broad array of asset classes, including long term private debt and equity, real estate equity and mortgages, REITs, preferred stock, asset backed securities and other structured products. The current portfolio will soon surpass $500 million.

Learn more about Impact Investing from the Global Impact Investing Network