Village Capital invested in LendStreet; a prime example of a mission-driven business that typically doesn't get funded by mainstream venture capital funds.
'We focus on the whole universe of stocks, and engage with companies such as Rio Tinto, BP, British Energy or British American Tobacco even though we don't hold them in our SRI funds.' The mainstream fund managers describe the SRI team as 'tree-huggers', with what Brook hopes is affection.
Fund new mainstream schools only where places are needed.
In terms of how you actually find the companies, you would look at strategies that we would call, in the search fund world, mainstream deal sourcing or proprietary deal sourcing.
This is the fabled yen-carry trade, and everybody has been at it, from hedge funds to mainstream banks.
State funding for mainstream parties in Britain was last increased in 1975, after a period when, as now, Labour and the Tories were hard to tell apart.
"This means considering postponing new costly initiatives – even those we fully support – if that is the only way we can secure sufficient funding for mainstream social care services".
Recently, with Western defence circles increasingly caught up with the so called "war on terror", Willett's incisive analysis was less in vogue and she complained that it was harder to get her research funded by mainstream sources.
That way, promising ideas do not have to wait for the next budget cycle, and innovators do not have to beg for funds from mainstream managers who are measured on current revenues and profits.
In the letter to ministers this month, the Tory-led Local Government Association (LGA) said "frank assessments of prioritisation" were needed, adding: "This means considering postponing new costly initiatives – even those we fully support – if that is the only way we can secure sufficient funding for mainstream social care services".
