On 7 April 2009, we held the first of the Better Returns in Better World project workshops, focusing on the specific issue of access to medicines. The overall objective was to examine the contribution that has been made by investors to the access to medicines debate, and to use this analysis to draw some wider conclusions on the wider contribution that investors can make to poverty alleviation and development. This note presents the key findings from the workshop as they relate to the Better Returns in Better World project, and incorporates some additional reflections and comments from the workshop attendees and the reviewers of the Briefing Note prepared for the workshop.