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  • GIIN Report: Impact Measurement And Management Are Front And Center For Investors

    via Forbesby Anne Field

    January 23, 2020

    Summary

    In this Forbes article, Anne Field covers the GIIN’s newly released survey, The State of Impact Measurement and Management Practice, Second Edition, emphasizing how accurate insight into impact performance is critical to the growth of the impact investing industry. According to GIIN’s Managing Director, Sapna Shah, “impact management is a requirement for all credible impact investors,” “it’s not optional anymore.” The growing interest amongst financial investors to step up “their expectations for reliable and comprehensive impact performance reporting” will offer enterprises the opportunity “to differentiate themselves.”

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  • Why capital can't be a coward: A disruptive take on impact

    via Pro Bono Australiaby Mehrdad Baghai, Sean Hinton, Jacqueline Novogratz, Alejandro Preusche and Shane Tedjarati

    December 13, 2019

    Summary

    This Pro Bono Australia article gives significant insights into the growing momentum of the impact investment movement, and provides an overview of what the authors identify as the, “core beliefs that could underlie […] a true Impact Revolution,” which they outline as: Equality of Humanity, Social Justice, Mutual Interdependence and Personal Transformation.  According to the authors, “revolution is not merely a reboot of capitalism into a more benevolent form. It is fueled by an entirely different philosophy and value set that is more conducive to the advancement of human civilization.”

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  • What’s slowing a wider adoption of impact investing?

    via ImpactPHL Perspectivesby Michael Cosack and Jeremy Bach

    November 11, 2019

    Summary

    This article by Michael Cosack of ImpactWise LLC and Jeremy Bach of Bach Capital Advisors examines the challenges of aligning financial and impact risk. Cosack and Bach argue that the slow adoption and the confusion about impact investing stems from the lack of “a common impact investment language” which leaves too many financial advisors that institutional asset owners rely upon without a full understanding of the impact investing space. Furthermore, they outline how the investment vehicles that the financial services industry offers are created in traditional investment terms that need to be adapted to impact investing.

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  • Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker: How to save capitalism from itself

    via FastCompanyby Darren Walker

    November 11, 2019

    Summary

    In this article, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, describes how he imagines “a more equitable 21st-century capitalism.” He argues that “the imperative of the 21st century is to build a new economy” because “solving today’s challenges requires unprecedented collaboration between business and philanthropy, private and public sectors.” He explains how the Ford Foundation is currently working to reimagine its philanthropic model to create “value in ways that better benefit society.”

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  • Why more asset managers are taking cues from UN sustainability goals

    via Financial Timesby Jennifer Thompson

    November 11, 2019

    Summary

    This Financial Times article highlights how and why more asset managers are embracing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and notes that they are becoming more ‘universal’ across sectors. Jennifer Thompson outlines a variety of global projects currently being steered by the UN to help channel private funds towards the goals but also cautions the risk that “companies might be taking what they’re doing and rewiring it in the language of the SDGs”.

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  • Faith-based investors are building a direct-investment pipeline to finance climate action

    via Impact Alphaby Jessica Pothering

    November 11, 2019

    Summary

    In this article, Jessica Pothering gives a substantial overview of the environmental focus within the investment portfolios of faith based investors. Beth Collins, who heads impact investing at Catholic Relief Services, explains that, although a significant amount of capital is being allocated towards institutional-quality investments, more capital must be allocated to “direct investing, blended finance, technical services and capacity building” to address the issues of climate change.

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  • What Does The Growth Of Impact Investing Mean?

    via Mondaqby Michael J. Preston and Michael James

    November 11, 2019

    Summary

    This article by Michael J. Preston and Michael James gives a substantial overview of the impact investing sector. Preston and James describe how “impact investments themselves adopt forms and structures familiar to private and growth equity and venture capital investing.” They argue that the near future “may witness something of a paradigm shift, with investors turning to larger buy-out or control deals” and highlight that “managers and investors alike need to give careful thought to the impact outcomes that they will seek from their capital, and to how they will define social impact in order to measure their success.''

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  • Schroders’ deal opens way for more M&A in impact investing

    via Financial Timesby Jennifer Thompson

    November 11, 2019

    Summary

    In this article, Jennifer Thompson outlines the many reasons why mainstream asset managers increasingly want a slice of the impact investing ‘market’ - “impact investing seems the logical next step.” Thompson features the Schroders-BlueOrchard deal and quotes Marieke Spence, executive director of Impact Capital Managers, about the investment, calling it“a bellwether.” She also notes that impact investing is quickly becoming “the next big growth area for asset management.”

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  • How to measure the “impact” in impact investing

    via Daily Maverickby Dean Alborough

    November 11, 2019

    Summary

    This Business Maverick article covers the current stage of impact investing and outlines the key elements and characteristics that impact investments must include, according to commonly adopted definitions. Furthermore, Dean Alborough explains the importance of impact measurement and identifies different existing impact measurement frameworks. 

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  • The Next Frontier In Impact Investing: Investing in Refugees

    via Forbesby Bonnie Chiu

    November 08, 2019

    Summary

    In this Forbes article, Bonnie Chiu covers a relatively new topic being discussed in impact investing; refugee lens investing. She features some of the investors active in this space and explains that some impact investors are betting on the imperative of unleashing the economic potential of refugees, while others, “are pioneering a movement of refugee lens investing.” She claims that, “refugee lens investing is a nascent movement, but it has potential to address one of the biggest political and social crises of our times.”

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  • Why Impact Investing is a Natural Fit for Faith-Based Investors

    via Financial Advisorby Amit Bouri

    August 19, 2019

    Summary

    In this op-ed for Financial Advisor, Amit Bouri reflects on faith-based investors’ alignment with impact investing, tracing the history of their position at the “heart [of] values-based investing.” Bouri states that impact investing allows investors to “deepen the ties between their capital and their faith,” and encourages more institutions to join the practice due to the “momentum and appetite for faith-based investors to work with existing impact investors and organizations to design an impact approach that reflects both their faith and their financial requirements.”

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  • Impact Investments Projected for 2019 Growth: Survey

    via Financial Investments News

    August 19, 2019

    Summary

    Financial Investments News covers the GIIN’s 2019 Annual Impact Investor Survey, focusing on its growth projections for investment capital and individual investments in the coming year. FIN News discusses this with GIIN Research Manager Rachel Bass, who provides insights about this finding and encourages the nonprofit investment community to “think about what role they could play in driving social and environmental change and how they can align their assets with their values as an organization and in the broader spectrum.”

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