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  • How can impact investors make real-world change happen with their dollars?

    via The Globe and Mailby Dwarka Lakhan

    August 05, 2022

    Summary

    In this The Globe and Mail article, author Dwarka Lakhan discusses how impact investors can make real-world change happen with their dollars. Lakhan quotes the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) generally accepted definition for impact investing, writing the following, “According to the GIIN, impact investments are made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact, alongside a financial return.”

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  • GIIN research shows regional disparities in progress towards financial inclusion SDGs

    via ImpactInvestorby Ian Lewis

    June 17, 2022

    Summary

    In this ImpactInvestor article, author Ian Lewis sits down with Sophia Sunderji, Director of Research at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) to discuss the new GIINSight: Progress Towards SDGs across financial inclusion investments in emerging markets. Sunderji says the following, “We’re always talking about the fact that impact investing is inherently good, but don’t always have the data and the evidence to back it up. Here is one piece of evidence that tells us that across three of these emerging market regions, this set of impact investments is outperforming what is needed in order to achieve access to responsible financial services for all.”

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  • Investors Should Avoid 6 Pitfalls to Champion Racial Equity

    via Impact Entrepreneur by Mahlet Getachew, Tynesia Boyea-Robinson, Lissa Glasgo

    June 09, 2022

    Summary

    This Impact Entrepreneur article co-authored by Mahlet Getachew, Tynesia Boyea-Robinson, and Lissa Glasgo argues that as investors begin to take steps to integrate racial equity into investing strategies, the need for clear and rigorous markers to help focus on areas of weakness and growth is as important as ever. The article highlights that “In 2020-2022, PolicyLink, CapEQ, and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) partnered to develop new racial equity metrics for the GIIN’s IRIS+ system, the generally accepted system for measuring and managing impact among investors.”

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  • How are investors measuring impact?

    via Uxoloby Kennith Rosario

    May 11, 2022

    Summary

    In this Uxolo article, author Kennith Rosario sits down with Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) to discuss the launch of the GIIN’s IRIS+ financial inclusion impact performance benchmark. Bouri says the following, “This benchmark is significant because for the first time investors have the ability to compare themselves to the rest of the market on the basis of impact performance. At best, investors had impact performance data on their own portfolio. Until now, they haven't had a great way of comparing that data and understanding its significance.” 

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  • Impact investing is driving real economic returns and positive change

    via The CEO Magazine by Fiona Macintyre

    April 28, 2022

    Summary

    In this CEO Magazine article, author Fiona Macintyre explains how impact investing is moving the needle when it comes to proactively deploying capital towards specific, measurable societal and environmental goals while generating economic returns. Zarmeen Parvi, Senior Advisor for Australia and New Zealand at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is quoted in the article adding that, “Investors now want to ‘intentionally’ manage their impact and understand their impact footprint. From institutional investors to retail mum and dad investors, they want to see how their investment creates ‘real-world outcomes’ that are positive for people and the planet.”

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  • Benchmarks for impact performance promise to help investors drive ‘impact alpha’

    via ImpactAlphaby Dennis Price

    April 19, 2022

    Summary

    In this ImpactAlpha article, author Dennis Price sits down with Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) to discuss the launch of the GIIN’s IRIS+ financial inclusion impact performance benchmark. Bouri says the following, “'How do you focus your attention on how to drive greater performance?' The benchmark gives investors a tool to assess whether or not their investment strategies are moving the dial, relative to their peers, on expanding access to finance, for example, and then correct course as necessary.”

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  • GIIN’s new impact performance benchmark ‘milestone’ for the sector

    via ImpactInvestorby Paula Garrido

    April 19, 2022

    Summary

    In this ImpactInvestor article, author Paula Garrido discusses the launch of the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) IRIS+ financial inclusion impact performance benchmark. Garrido writes, “The new IRIS+ impact performance benchmark has been designed to allow investors to analyse and compare the impact performance of their investment in specific sectors against that of their peers, relative to specific goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The benchmark will be rolled out to cover other sectors beyond financial inclusion, with agriculture and energy next in line.”

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  • In brief: GIIN launches ‘first-of-its-kind’ impact performance benchmark

    via New Private Markets by Jordan Stutts

    April 05, 2022

    Summary

    In this New Private Markets article, author Jordan Stutts discusses the launch of the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) IRIS+ financial inclusion impact performance benchmark. Stutts writes, “The Global Impact Investing Network has launched a prototype version of an impact performance benchmark. The benchmark, which GIIN described as 'first-of-its-kind,' uses a digital platform developed by the impact reporting initiative IRIS+ and is now available for a select group of investors to demo. Thirteen asset managers including LeapFrog Investments and TIAA-sponsored Nuveen submitted data to GIIN to build the impact benchmark’s beta version.”

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  • GIIN launches beta version of first IRIS+ impact performance benchmark

    via Investments & Pensions Europe by Susanna Rust

    April 05, 2022

    Summary

    In this Investments & Pensions Europe article, author Susanna Rust discusses the launch of the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) IRIS+ financial inclusion impact performance benchmark. Rust writes, “The GIIN has launched the beta version of its first benchmark that will allow investors to analyse and compare the impact performance of their investments against that of their peers and relative to global goals. The first in a series of benchmarks that will launch in the IRIS+ system is for financial inclusion, with agriculture and energy next in line. IRIS+ is an impact measurement and management system developed and maintained by the GIIN.”

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  • GIIN Sets Ball Rolling on New Impact Investment Benchmarks

    via ESG Investorby Emmy Hawker

    March 31, 2022

    Summary

    In this ESG Investor article, author Emmy Hawker discusses the launch of the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) IRIS+ financial inclusion impact performance benchmark. Hawker writes, “Hosted on GIIN’s impact management platform IRIS+, the beta financial inclusion impact performance benchmark aims to provide data across a set of KPIs to assess financial opportunities, resilience and economic development within the financial services sector. It will be followed by other impact benchmarks that will further provide investors with decision-useful data across sectors to inform their impact investing strategies.”

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  • Retail investors are the ‘next frontier’ for impact investing

    via ImpactInvestorby Danielle Rossingh

    March 17, 2022

    Summary

    In this ImpactInvestor article, author Danielle Rossingh sits down with Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) to discuss the next frontier of impact investing for retail investors. Bouri says the following, “All the data is pointing to a great deal of demand amongst the broader population for opportunities to put your money to work, to invest in a better world, but the financial services market has not stepped up to service this demand with a diverse array of high-quality impact investment products.”

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  • #4 Investing in Women - International Women’s Day

    via Cardano Developmentby CD Insights Podcast

    March 08, 2022

    Summary

    In this episode of Cardono Development’s CD Insights Podcast, guest host Allie Yu of AVP Risk Management speaks with Amit Bouri, co-founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Janice Kotut and Ingwell Kuil, co-founders of Sustainable Links, and Femke Smeets, partner at Total Impact Capital. Their conversation looks at the role of gender lens investing to impact SDG5, trends in gender investment, and about how innovative startups are mobilising capital to impact women positively. 

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