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Why Impact Lab?
What investors need, but what is notably missing in the impact investing market, are impact intelligence tools to make sense of the impact performance of their investments.
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Why Now?
Insight into impact performance is crucial for impact investing to achieve its full potential and ensure that investment capital is directed to the most effective solutions.
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Why The GIIN?
The GIIN’s analytical capability and impact measurement and management (IMM) expertise offer a strong base from which to begin developing these analytic tools, starting with impact performance benchmarks.
What we’ve accomplished
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Launched five impact performance benchmarks
Benchmarks allow investors to gauge the impact performance of their investments relative to the market, peer groups and against the scale of the social and/or environmental challenge.
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Designed two cutting-edge analytic tools for fund asset owners
The GIIN’s prototype fund-level impact decision-making tools offer an analytical approach for investors to compare potential positive impacts across sectors, geographies and timeframes.
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Explored factors driving evidence-backed impact
The GIIN developed a regression analysis approach to identify effective impact investing practices, revealing a correlation between investor guidance and increased job creation within investee companies.
Driving a deeper understanding of impact performance, risk, and financial return
GIINsights
Explore research developed from the impact performance benchmarks
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Impact Investing in the Forestry Sector: Opportunities and Challenges
This report analyzes investment-level, annualized impact performance data contributed by investors to the GIIN’s forestry impact performance benchmark.
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Representation of Women in Healthcare: Preliminary Findings, Trends and Considerations for Impact Investors
This brief investigates the representation of women founders among healthcare companies receiving impact investments using data collected in the GIIN healthcare benchmark.
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Energy Impact Investors Not on Track to Limit Emissions to Meet Climate Goals
This report analyzes the progress of impact investments included in the Global Impact Investing Network’s energy benchmark toward global climate goals.
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GIINsight: Enhancing impact performance in agriculture through non-financial support and sustainable practices
This report provides investors with insights on how impact performance analytics can unlock deeper understanding of investors’ actions and the real-world impact of their capital.
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GIINsight: Agriculture investments reveal link between company revenue growth and positive impact results for farmers
This brief explores the relationship between financial and impact indicators across agriculture impact investments.
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GIINsight: Financial inclusion investments show resilience to COVID-19
Insights from impact data can steer investments towards addressing the globe’s most consequential challenges more effectively.
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FOUNDING STRATEGIC PARTNERS
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Temasek is a global investment company headquartered in Singapore, with a net portfolio value of US$288b as at 31 March 2024. Marking its unlisted assets to market would provide US$23b of value uplift and bring its mark to market net portfolio value to US$311b. Temasek’s Purpose “So Every Generation Prospers” guides it to make a difference for today’s and future generations. Operating on commercial principles, Temasek seeks to deliver sustainable returns over the long term. It has 13 offices in 9 countries around the world: Beijing, Hanoi, Mumbai, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore in Asia; and Brussels, London, Mexico City, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Washington, DC outside Asia.
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Visa Foundation seeks to support inclusive economies where individuals, businesses, and communities can thrive. Through grant making and investing, Visa Foundation prioritizes the growth of gender diverse and inclusive small and micro businesses. The Foundation also supports broader community needs and disaster response in times of crisis.
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The EQT Foundation is an impact-first investor and incubator supporting entrepreneurs, researchers, and non-profits to build a regenerative and more inclusive tomorrow. Founded by Partners at EQT, a purpose-driven global investment organization with a Nordic heritage, the foundation exists to push the frontiers of impact, empower the entire EQT ecosystem to give back to society in meaningful ways, and safeguard the EQT Values.
The GIIN Impact Lab was mobilized with generous initial support from Mission Throttle and the Max and Marjorie Fisher Foundation