Understanding DreamFutures: Contracts, Securities & Markets (with a small mention of the Manti Te'o Social Impact Bonds) - (Deluxe Color Graphics Edition)

This is the Deluxe Edition with color graphics inside. The first half of this book is ultimately a very positive story but it takes you on one man’s deeply personal and dramatic seven-year journey through Wall Street (Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley…), Main Street, the wilderness, human psychology, Corporations, Foundations, the social sector, multilateral and development agencies and Governments and the odds he faced to bring about a simple but major breakthrough financial innovation for a better world: The skepticism, politics, envy, scandals, financial meltdown, fraud, sexual harassment, bullying, lies and pettiness. The negatives lose as he proves that through the use of DreamFutures there is in effect an untapped natural Global Endowment that he estimates in the $10 Trillion of previously inexistent capital for new jobs, creative talent and new infrastructure to be exclusively focused on improving quality of life in our societies, and make certain ills extinct in our world. Ironically, the same financial markets that took the world to the brink of collapse may be an unexpected avenue to make this happen, under the right conditions. Alternatively, a new breed of more savvy entities will take their place. The Future is as beautiful as you, we want it to be. The second half of the book aims to be a starter guide of how you, Financial Advisors, Corporate Strategists, Advertisers, Investment Bankers, Governments, Foundations, Specialty Insurers, Students, Programmers, and/or their clients can Issue your/their own DreamFutures to unleash the power of the entire financial system for a better world you/they want to live in. The "new, new thing" is social impact bonds. In the last two years, for example, the Stanford Social Innovation Review has published more than 50 articles about them, and in 2011 the term was one of the top ten philanthropy buzzwords. Huge numbers, like $600 billion of potential investment, get bandied about. – US News DreamFutures (ContratosPromesa) among the list of top 49 innovations in the history of Peru – SemanaEconomica Barack Obama imports a big idea from Britain – The Economist The most exciting 0.003% of Obama’s Budget: – FastCompany With a DreamFuture you can “buy” yourself the world you have always dreamed of… Incredible to think Capital Markets can actually be put to work exclusively to produce such good… Magazine PODER