Investing With Impact

By Mike Switzer

Published August 22, 2017 at 5:24 AM EDT

If you haven’t heard, there’s a new term for socially responsible investing. It’s now referred to as impact investing. But who are these investors, what are they investing in, and how are these investments performing?

Mike Switzer interviews Greg Garvin with Natural Investments in Charleston, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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