Impact investing can sometimes seem incongruous given the imperative of generating a measurable beneficial social or environmental impact alongside a financial return.
Proving housing for the homeless and vulnerable is very admirable. Receiving a dividend yield of 5.5 percent and an annual total return of 7.5 percent for the privilege may not be considered quite so meritorious.
But this is what Home Reit plc., a close-ended vehicle advised and managed by Alvarium Fund Managers, a subsidiary of Alarium Investments, the London-based family office and asset manager that includes Nancy Curtain, the former chief investment o...