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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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  • Point of impact: Q&A on impact investing

    via Public Finance by Sean Gilbert

    March 02, 2022

    Summary

    In this Public Finance article author Sean Gilbert, Chief Investor Network Officer at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), reflects on how public sector investors can use impact investing to achieve social and environmental goals alongside healthy financial returns. Gilbert writes, “During the past few years there has been substantial growth in the number of people who are expecting their capital to bring not only a financial return but also real-world benefits for the environment and society. Impact investing sees an investor targeting a particular set of positive environmental or social outcomes. In their investment process, they manage and actively monitor progress towards achieving those goals and manage their portfolio with that in mind.”

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  • Firms hit by Covid draw family investor capital

    via AsianInvestorby Richard Newell

    February 25, 2022

    Summary

    In this AsianInvestor article, author Richard Newell highlights the role Asian family offices can play in solving some of the world’s most consequential issues through impact investing. Newell mentions that,“The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) defines impact investments as investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.”

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  • Is faith-based finance making a dent in impact investing?

    via Uxoloby Kennith Rosario

    February 18, 2022

    Summary

    In this Uxolo article, author Kennith Rosario discusses the power religious organizations hold in regard to driving positive change through impact investing. Rosario writes, “Although different faiths uphold different values, there are thematic overlaps when it comes to impact investing. In 2020, the Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN) conducted a survey of faith-based impact investors and found that the top three UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) featuring in faith-based portfolios were decent work and economic growth (81%), affordable and clean energy (68%), and reduced inequalities (68%). These SDGs also appear as top themes for respondents of the 2019 Annual Impact Investor Survey—the GIIN’s flagship research report. The commonalities between faith-based investors and impact investors’ interests in the SDGs suggest opportunities for collaboration to pursue shared social and environmental goals.” 

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  • Amit Bouri: The Impact Opportunity in 2022

    via OnImpactby John Treadgold

    February 17, 2022

    Summary

    In this OnImpact article, author John Treadgold sits down with Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) to discuss the GIIN’s pandemic recovery work and new initiatives we can expect this year. Bouri says the following, “The pandemic underscored the need for impact investing. It put a spotlight on many of the inequities that were already existing in our system, and unfortunately exacerbated them significantly. Whether you’re thinking about COVID recovery, or the broader agenda around achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, it’s going to be absolutely critical to have large scale capital move with the intention of generating positive measurable impact, if we are to achieve those big global goals.” 

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  • Building beyond an ESG baseline to invest with an impact lens

    via ImpactAlphaby Amit Bouri

    February 10, 2022

    Summary

    In this ImpactAlpha author Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), reflects on the importance of building beyond the ESG baseline and demonstrating how to successfully invest with an impact lens. Bouri writes, “Like the G7 Taskforce, the GIIN envisions a future in which impact is integrated into every investment decision alongside risk and return, a future in which transparency about the real-world outcomes of investments is embedded into the culture of finance. Taken together, these transformative changes can help rebuild badly eroded trust and push finance towards a ‘race to the top’ for investing in a better future. But they have potential for even more: They can help us emerge beyond this moment of global poly-crisis into a more sustainable, more inclusive world. Thinking ‘beyond’ may be about the long-term – but for a world in trouble, it can’t come quickly enough.”

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