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  • Impact investment gains from improving measures of success and failure

    via Financial Timesby Billy Nauman

    October 16, 2020

    Summary

    In this article, Billy Nauman covers the growth and evolution of the impact investing market and interviews Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, Amit Bouri. According to Bouri, since the term “impact investing” was coined in 2007, we have seen a significant increase in sophistication and standardization of impact measurement and management. Whereas in 2010 the majority of investors used their own measurement systems to track impact, Bouri underscores, “Now, almost all are aligning around a core group of impact measurement and management systems.”

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  • #TradeTalks: The Future of Capitalism and Impact Investing Lessons Learned Out of #COVID19

    via Nasdaqby Jill Malandrino

    October 07, 2020

    Summary

    In this broadcast, Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, Amit Bouri, joins Jill Malandrino on Nasdaq TradeTalks to discuss the future of capitalism and the lessons learned about impact investing in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Why is impact investing still the best kept secret in town? – EVPA’s new CEO

    via Pioneers Postby Pioneer Reporters

    October 07, 2020

    Summary

    This Pioneers Post article covers the 16th annual EVPA conference and features the keynote session of Amit Bouri, Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network in New York. According to Bouri, the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted “our deepest inequities” and calls for “the need for a transition that leads to a very different future.” He underscores, “We need more investors intentionally targeting positive impact. We need more investors measuring and managing for impact performance. And we need more investors collaborating and contributing to the growth of the industry.”

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  • A Changed Vision of Investment Success for a Changed World

    via your SRIby Amit Bouri

    September 18, 2020

    Summary

    “This tipping point is a moment of tremendous opportunity: we can demonstrate to the world that money can do so much more than just make more money” - GIIN co-founder and CEO Amit Bouri shares his reflections on how this moment of crisis can play a critical role in pushing the impact investing industry toward greater accountability and “...a ‘race to the top’ with potential to make real progress on our most pressing global goals.”

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  • Impact investing lends a hand to struggling social entrepreneurs

    via Pro Bono Australiaby Maggie Cogan

    September 18, 2020

  • Wouter Koelewijn: COVID-19 crisis will stimulate need and demand for impact investing

    via Financial Investigator by Jolanda de Groot

    July 21, 2020

    Summary

    In this article, Financial Investigator’s Jolanda Groot interviews Wouter Koelewijn, European Liaison for the GIIN, about the challenges and the effects of the coronavirus crisis on impact investing. According to Wouter, “there will be a great need as well as a great demand for impact investing as a result of this crisis.” Investors wanting to create a positive societal impact can put their money to work in “efforts to rebuild businesses, restore quality jobs and increase access to basic services such as health, housing, and education” during both the crisis and the recovery phase. In this regard, Wouter underscores the launch of the Response, Recovery, and Resilience Investment Coalition (R3 Coalition) which, managed by the Global Impact Investing Network as the organizing body, “aims to streamline impact investing efforts that will address the large-scale social and economic consequences of COVID-19.”

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  • Intention is not enough: Impact investors seek standardised measures of ‘impact’

    via Institutional Asset Managerby Madeleine Taylor

    July 21, 2020

    Summary

    In this article, Madeleine Taylor interviews Kelly McCarthy, Director, IRIS+ and Impact Measurement and Management at the GIIN, about the standardization of impact measurement and management. According to the GIIN’s 2020 Annual Impact Investor Survey, 66 percent of impact investors highlighted that ‘impact washing’ is an incredibly important issue to tackle if the market is to scale. Kelly explains that a goal on itself is not enough but that “it’s also important to be able to demonstrate measurable performance against that goal.” She underscores that “now more than ever, there is a real cry as the world needs companies to act and reflect on a broader number range of topics than those that have been required by regulators, and those typically captured in profit and loss statements.” According to the GIIN, “…impact will become a feature of company performance, just like the liquidity or risk and return profile of an investment.”

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  • Impact investors not scared off by Covid-19 – GIIN global survey

    via Pioneers Postby Post Reporters

    July 01, 2020

    Summary

    This Pioneers Post article, covering the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) 2020 Annual Impact Investor Survey, highlights that impact investors do not seem to be scared off by the current COVID-19 crisis. Indeed, according to the survey, more than half (57%) of the respondents answered, “they were unlikely to decrease the volume of capital they had planned to commit to impact investments this year.” Moreover, the article underscores that this year’s survey, “provides data and insights from the largest number of respondents ever: 294 of the world’s leading impact investors, who collectively manage USD 404 billion of impact investing assets.”

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  • With $715B In AUM, Impact Investors Stay The Course, Despite The Pandemic, Says The GIIN

    via Forbesby Anne Field

    July 01, 2020

    Summary

    In this article, Anne Field from Forbes interviews Amit Bouri, Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, about some key findings from the GIIN’s 2020 Annual Impact Investor Survey. In particular, they focus on the Survey’s findings related to the current COVID-19 crisis and note that impact investors seem to not have abandoned pre-crisis investing plans. According to Bouri, this makes sense, particularly if you understand investors’ reasons for embracing impact. He also underscores, “Impact investors are motivated by issues that are going to take a long time to resolve.”

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  • Global Impact Investing Network launches COVID-19 coalition

    via Pensions & Investments by Hazel Bradford

    June 11, 2020

    Summary

    In this article, Hazel Bradford covers the launch of the Response, Recovery, and Resilience Investment Coalition – “R3 Coalition” – founded  to “streamline impact investing efforts that address the social and economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic through opportunities such as health interventions and access to capital.” The current COVID-19 crisis "underscores the need for bigger and better collaboration," notes Amit Bouri, Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, which is managing the coalition.

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  • Impact Investor Networks Collaborate to Tackle Covid-19 Fallout

    via Barron’s by Abby Schultz

    June 11, 2020

    Summary

    In this article, Abby Schultz interviews Co-Founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, Amit Bouri, on the launch of the new Response, Recovery, and Resilience Investment Coalition (R3 Coalition). According to Bouri, “there was a broad recognition that we had a unique and unprecedented global crisis that required a unique and global response.”

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  • What do ‘bad’ SDG impact ratings mean?

    via Expert Investorby Elena Johansson

    June 11, 2020

    Summary

    In this article, Elena Johansson covers how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be used as an “investing tool” to drive greater impact, and interviews Rachel Bass, Senior Manager, Research, at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) in New York. According to Bass, although the application of the SDGs in investments remains an evolving process, the importance of SDG investing is rising. Bass underscores that the GIIN’s 2020 State of Impact Measurement and Management Practice survey revealed that approximately three-quarters of respondents are aligning their portfolios with the SDGs, “using the SDGs to guide their impact measurement and management practices” and to set their targets.

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