00:00YOU TO OUR MIDST -- AND YOU TO AMIT PRAIRIE VIEW HAVE BEEN TO CHINA AND INDIA. YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE GROWTH IN TERMS OF THE WEALTH INTO IMPACT INVESTING. TELL ME MORE. > > IT IS AN EXCITING TIME TO TALK ABOUT INVESTING IN ASIA. FOR MY RECENT TRIPS, ONE THING I GLEANED, THOUGH THERE IS A LONG TRADITION OF INVESTING, IT IS TAKING OFF. THERE ARE INCREASINGLY WEALTHY FAMILIES IN ASIA WHO WANT TO PUT THEIR MONEY TO WORK TO HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE WORLD. THIS APPLIES IN INDIA WHERE I WAS A MONTH AGO. I ALSO HEARD FROM OUR NETWORK THAT THIS IS EMERGING IN CHINA MAINLAND AND IN HONG KONG AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES INCLUDING INDONESIA, MALAYSIA AND VIETNAM. IT WAS AN EXCITING, DYNAMIC TIME. RAMY: A LOT OF FOLKS WHEN THEY THINK ABOUT EMERGING MARKETS, THEY SAY WE KNOW THERE IS GROWING WEALTH, BUT WHAT DEGREE CAN YOU QUANTIFY THIS? > > ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE OBSERVED IS OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS ASIA-PACIFIC IS THE FASTEST GROWING REGION IN THE WORLD. I CAN SPEAK TO THE DATA AND ANECDOTES FROM MY RECENT TRIP THAT INCREASINGLY WE ARE SEEING INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT CAPITAL AND IN VISCERAL -- INDIVIDUAL THAT IS BECOMING MORE INVOLVED IN IMPACT INVESTING. IT IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG FOR THE FULL POTENTIAL WE SEE IN ASIA. RAMY: I KNOW YOU RELEASED A SURVEY OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS, 11 COUNTRIES. CAMBODIA WAS THE BIGGEST RECEIVER OF IMPACT INVESTING FUNDS. LET ' S BRING UP THAT CHART. WE CAN SEE FOR CAMBODIA IT WAS $400 MILLION. WHAT IS HAPPENING? > > THIS IS A DYNAMIC TIME THAT IS ALSO BUILT ON MICRO-FINANCE WORK. THAT IS THE ABILITY OF FINANCIAL SERVICES, LENDING, TO LOWER INCOME POPULATIONS AND MICRO LOOMS AREA THAT HAS FUELED A LOT OF INVESTMENT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. IT IS INTERESTING THAT HELPS HIGHLIGHT THE DIVERSITY WE SEE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND ACROSS ALL OF ASIA. RAMY: THE CHALLENGES IN TERMS OF THE ENVIRONMENT ALSO LEND THEMSELVES TO IMPACT INVESTING OPPORTUNITIES. WHERE IS ONE OF THE BIG OPPORTUNITIES? > > WE ARE SEEING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT ASIA, BOTH FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE, WHETHER IT IS PEOPLE WANTING TO PUT CAPITAL TO WORK IN SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY OR RENEWABLE ENERGY BUT ALSO BEING DEPLOYED TO ADDRESS POVERTY. IN ASIA THERE IS TREMENDOUS WEALTH AND TREMENDOUS NEED. WE SEE MANY IMPACT INVESTORS BASED IN ASIA, PUTTING THEIR MONEY TO WORK TO HELP IMPROVE LIVELIHOODS OF LOWER INCOME ASIANS. RAMY: WE WILL HAVE TO LEAVE IT THERE. RATE STUFF, THANK YOU

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From Problems To Profits: Investors Eye Asia's Environmental Issues

"The tip of the iceberg," is how CEO Amit Bouri describes the momentum of impact investing in Asia. The head of the New York-based Global Impact Investing Network, or GIIN, adds APAC is the world's fastest-growing region for private and institutional funds. Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines lead the pack with issues ranging from forestry, renewable energy and poverty. Ramy Inocencio sits down with the GIIN chief during New York's first Sustainable Finance Week and Bloomberg's inaugural Global Responsible Investing Forum to discuss how investors are turning problems into profits. (Source: Bloomberg)