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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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  • Shifting power, redefining risk, and advancing justice: A model for investors to advance racial equity

    via ImpactAlphaby Amit Bouri, Tynesia Boyea- Robinson, Michael McAfee

    December 15, 2021

    Summary

    This ImpactAlpha article co-authored by Amit Bouri, Tynesia Boyea- Robinson, and Michael MacAfee speaks to the importance of the standardization of racial equity investment strategies. The article highlights the new framework for racially equitable investing affiliated with the Corporate Racial Equity Alliance, which was co-founded by PolicyLink, JUST Capital and FSG, and lists the framework’s three strategic goals which are, “1. Increasing the power of historically marginalized populations due to race and/or ethnicity; 2. Shifting the perception of riskiness of investing in those populations; and 3. Creating just systems that produce equitable outcomes.”

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  • Social Finance Podcast - Episode 4 - Pushing the frontier: impact investing for decent work

    via International Labor Organization by Lisa Morgan, Patricia Richer, Amit Bouri

    December 15, 2021

    Summary

    In this episode of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Social Finance Podcast, Lisa Morgan, Technical Specialist at the ILO, speaks with Amit Bouri, co-founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Patricia Richter, Senior Technical Officer at the ILO. Their conversation focuses on the fundamental role that decent work and quality jobs play in sustainable development and how investors can leverage their financing to contribute positively to employment outcomes that address today’s pressing issues. Morgan, Bouri, and Ritcher highlight the collaboration between the GIIN and its members with the ILO, including the work on developing quality jobs investment strategies and metrics for measuring impact achieved.

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  • Warriors and Lovers: Systemic change requires diversity in strategies, too

    via ImpactAlphaby David Blank

    December 03, 2021

    Summary

    In this ImpactAlpha article, author David Blank speaks to members of the design team working on The New Capitalism Project, an 18-month effort that has enlisted a dozen leaders to participate in a collective strategy process to model the movement for a new economic system. Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is quoted in the article adding that, “There is still too much capital sitting on the sidelines. The movement for a new capitalism will require investors to rethink the power of capital and take a broader, longer-term view about the value investments create for people, for communities, and for the planet. It is time for a new status quo that thinks about investment capital in an entirely new way.”

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  • Adopting impact performance standards to hold sustainable investing accountable for real-world outcomes

    via ImpactAlphaby Christina Leijonhufvud, Sarah Gelfand, Kelly McCarthy, and Dean Hand

    December 03, 2021

    Summary

    This ImpactAlpha article co-authored by Christina Leijonhufvud, Sarah Gelfand, Kelly McCarthy, and Dean Hand emphasizes the need for more reliable and verifiable performance reporting on sustainability and impact results. The article mentions the GIIN’s COMPASS: The Methodology for Comparing and Assessing Impact report reading, “This work builds on the GIIN’s IRIS+ system, and several years of gathering real-world impact performance data at the investment level, to provide guidance on calculations and approaches for interpreting change in impact over time as well as for assessing impact performance relative to the size of specific social and environmental solutions gaps. The COMPASS methodology reflects aspects of several industry-wide efforts designed to bring more rigor and meaning to analysis and comparisons of impact performance data.”

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  • Getting Money off the Sidelines: A Starting List to Invest for Racial Equity

    via Bridgespan Social Impactby Bridgespan Social Impact, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), PolicyLink, and CapEQ

    November 19, 2021

    Summary

    This work, which is the result of a joint project between Bridgespan Social Impact, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), PolicyLink, and CapEQ, includes a list of racial-equity funds that that explicitly seek to improve the livelihoods of individuals who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and their communities. The work highlights the GIIN’s IRIS+ racial-equity theme reading, “Advancing racial equity requires diligent, intentional processes and consistent, rigorous evaluation regarding outcomes. Racial equity is often seen as both an emergent process and an outcome—investors cannot have one without the other. GIIN, PolicyLink, FSG, JUST Capital, and CapEQ recently partnered to launch the prototype of its IRIS+ racial-equity theme to help investors select impact strategies and metrics.”

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