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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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  • Devex Invested: Pressure to deliver on development finance gets real

    via Devex by Adva Saldinger

    February 02, 2022

    Summary

    In this Devex article, author Adva Saldinger highlights key topics and trends around the development finance space for the coming year. Saldinger speaks to Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) about the importance of accountability. Bouri, speaking on the need to hold corporations accountable to their net-zero commitments, says there could be “a big shift from pledges to a focus on performance" in the new year.

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  • How Impact Investing Could Move Family Offices Beyond ESG Screened Portfolios

    via Forbesby Francois Botha

    February 01, 2022

    Summary

    In this Forbes article, author Francois Botha explores the power family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals hold when it comes to driving positive change through impact investing. Botha writes, “Impact investing is no longer a novel concept in the family office space. This is evident in the Global Impact Investing Network's (GIIN) most recent Impact Investor Survey results, whose respondents climbed from just twenty-four in 2010 to nearly three hundred in 2020. The survey also indicates that the impact investing market is now worth a considerable US$715 billion.”

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  • Faith-based investing can have meaning only in practice

    via Pioneers Post by Mathew Jensen

    January 27, 2022

    Summary

    In this Pioneers Post article, the fourth released in a series in partnership with the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Mathew Jenson of FaithInvest shares his thoughts on how religious groups can engage with impact investing to create the social and environmental impact that faiths around the world want to see. Jenson writes, “As a global faith-based membership organisation, FaithInvest works with our members on a wide variety of investment policy statements, reflecting the particular values of many different faith traditions. There are many tools and tactics available for faith organisations to use to implement their investment policies, three notable categories of which – often used in combination – are screening, engagement and impact investing.”

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  • GIIN Report: Institutional Asset Owners – Strategies for Engaging with Asset Managers for Impact

    via Caproasiaby Caproasia

    January 21, 2022

    Summary

    This Caproasia article discusses the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) latest research, Institutional Asset Owners: Strategies for Engaging with Asset Managers for Impact. The article offers insights on the report reading, “This research seeks to detail which strategies and mechanisms asset owners may need in place to align with asset managers to achieve impact across their portfolios. The research brief covers the nature of engagement with asset owners, challenges in pursuing impact alongside asset managers, and strategies to align impact incentives with external asset managers. Specifically, this research offers insights into existing practice and strategies institutional asset owners take to align with asset managers when managing impact performance.”

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  • Amit Bouri: The G7’s Impact Taskforce And Infusing Impact Into Mainstream Investing

    via Forbesby Anne Field

    January 14, 2022

    Summary

    In this Forbes article, author Anne Field sits down with Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) to discuss the recently released report from the G7’s Impact Taskforce. When speaking to the importance of safeguarding the integrity of impact investing, Bouri says the following, “It’s essential to the future of our financial markets. We’re operating at a time of declining trust and we’re seeing all over the world huge commitments to sustainability, to net zero, to the SDGs. That’s encouraging on the one hand, but also risks breeding cynicism if people don’t see real change. We think there’s a tremendous opportunity to rebuild trust through demonstrable impact results. That’s why the impact performance work we’re doing is so critical. You can imagine a world not that far off where investors are communicating their performance from a financial and impact perspective.”

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  • How To Invest in Quality Jobs Impact

    via Nordsipby Filipe Albuquerque

    January 14, 2022

    Summary

    In this Nordsip article, author Filipe Albuquerque discusses findings from the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) latest research, Understanding Impact Performance: Climate Change Mitigation Investments and Quality Jobs Investments. Albuquerque writes, “The report offers an analysis of social investments in quality jobs to help investors understand how to optimise their impact at each stage of the investment process to facilitate better impact results. It offers insights into impact performance and discusses how investors can use the GIIN’s COMPASS Methodology and IRIS+ to compare investments and impact performance.”

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  • Putting regeneration at the centre – going beyond net zero commitments

    via Business & Industry by Amit Bouri

    January 14, 2022

    Summary

    In this Business & Industry article author Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), reflects on the importance of taking a regenerative approach when it comes to the solving the climate crisis. Bouri writes, “In practice, regeneration incorporates the concepts of renewal and restoration to overcome the extractive, degrading and inequitable elements of the status quo. It provides a solution to help us leverage the power of investment to ‘right wrongs.’ An economic system rooted in regeneration prioritises replenishing and restoring ecosystems, communities and natural stocks. Now, as we begin to see glimmers of a new future, we must do more than just overcome the climate crises that we have created. That is why so many people describe regeneration as a pathway to ‘heal the future,’ both for our planet and humanity. In our next normal, regeneration must be at the centre of everything we do.”

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