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  • Impact Investors Should Use UN Targets as Investing Guide

    via Barron's PENTAby Abby Schultz

    October 16, 2018

    Summary

    In this article, Abby Schultz highlights how the GIIN is urging investors to focus their investments on bridging the multi-trillion dollar investment gap needed to finance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. She also reveals key findings from the GIIN’s latest report, Financing the Sustainable Development Goals: Impact Investing in Action, which outlines the processes of investors that have incorporated the goals into their investment cycles, demonstrating how they can be translated into the investment world. This serves as a step towards the eventual goal of inspiring all investors to take active roles in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by their 2030 deadline.

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  • Impact Investing: Don't Call It Charity

    via Barron'sby Leslie P. Norton

    August 09, 2018

    Summary

    “In a generation, impact investing will be widespread, and it will be business as usual to think about impact across your investment portfolio, from the largest institutions to everyday individuals who want to ensure they have the money to retire—but also to invest in the world they want to retire in.” GIIN CEO and co-founder Amit Bouri is the latest interview by Leslie P. Norton, profiling influencers in the investment world. In this interview for Barron’s, Bouri discusses different facets of impact investing, as well as his vision for the future of the industry. 

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  • Southeast Asia Is Powerhouse for Impact Investing, Study Says

    via Asia Asset Managementby Asia Asset Management

    August 09, 2018

    Summary

    The GIIN’s new report, The Landscape for Impact Investing in Southeast Asia, was featured in a recent article in Asia Asset Management. Published together with Intellecap Advisory Services, the report takes a deep dive into impact investing activity in 11 Southeast Asian countries. Abhilash Mudaliar, GIIN Research Director, says “The countries across the region offer dynamic business environments with increasing entrepreneurial and investment activity focused on ensuring inclusive and sustainable economic development.”

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  • In All Its Forms: Ford's VP of Inclusive Economies Talks Strategy

    via Inside Philanthropyby Philip Rojc

    August 09, 2018

    Summary

    The Ford Foundation is using its status to address inequality under the leadership of its Vice President of Inclusive Economies and Markets, Xavier de Souza Briggs. Briggs is focusing on incorporating social and economic justice into the spectrum of the foundation’s work. In this article, Briggs elaborates on the meaningful direction his work at Ford is taking.

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  • 18 Impact Investing Trends You Haven't Seen Before and 1 You Have

    via Forbesby Devin Thorpe

    August 09, 2018

    Summary

    While the impact investing industry as a whole is growing rapidly, smaller pockets of the sector are participating in trends that will further spur its growth. Devin Thorpe quotes 19 industry players on such trends they have observed or driven, which he believes will create more opportunities for impact investors and social entrepreneurs alike, as well as hope and guidance for “solving the world’s biggest problems.”

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  • Lack of Market 'Plumbing' Holds Back Sustainable Investing

    via Financial Timesby Axel Weber

    August 09, 2018

    Summary

    Axel Weber, chairman of UBS, identified three pieces of market infrastructure needed to spur impact investing’s continued growth and help its adoption into the mainstream. He articulates the need for common terms and definitions, performance benchmarks for increased market transparency, and more collaboration across public and private sectors.

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  • Demographic Trends are Driving Demand for Impact Investment - and the Industry is Starting to Adapt

    via Forbesby Michele Giddens

    July 17, 2018

    Summary

    Global demographic trends causing huge amounts of private wealth to shift to women and millennials are helping to drive the growth of the impact investing industry. It is estimated that women will hold about a third of the global total of private wealth by 2020 and about $7 trillion will be acquired by millennials. Both demographic groups are also likely to make investments aligned with their social and environmental values. This article elaborates on the influence of women and millennials, and proposes ways for the impact investing industry to capitalize on this momentum.

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  • Impact Investing Needs to Break out of its Niche

    via Financial Newsby Amit Bouri

    July 13, 2018

    Summary

    In this Op-ed, the GIIN’s co-founder and CEO Amit Bouri emphasizes the need for a much better understanding of the benefits of impact investing. As detailed in the GIIN Roadmap for the Future of Impact Investing, Bouri underscores that education for both finance professionals and business managers is required to change how investors and business leaders think about society and the environment. He notes that while the industry has seen much success over the past ten years, “the current financial system is not serving the planet. It’s not serving the people. And it’s not serving investors.” Impact investing is a powerful solution, though in order to build a world where impact is integrated into all investment decisions, impact investing needs to scale at a much faster rate—and providing further education will help fuel the market’s growth.

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  • Cambridge University Throws Weight behind Impact Investing

    via Investments & Pensions Europeby Gail Moss

    July 05, 2018

    Summary

    Cambridge University has recently committed to addressing climate change through divestment from fossil fuels in the university’s £3bn endowment fund, academic efforts to encourage environmental impact investment, and more. The University will also create a Centre for a Carbon Neutral Future as a home base for its sustainable energy research as a well as a platform for policy discussions, appoint an ESG officer, and aims to become carbon neutral by 2050, if not before. These commitments come after pressure from students and staff stemming from their concern over the university’s environmental impact.

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  • Wealthy Millennials Fuel Impact Investing Gains

    via Barron's PENTAby Fang Block

    July 05, 2018

    Summary

    The growth of the impact investing among high-net-worths in the U.S. is found to be largely driven by millennials. According to U.S. Trust’s annual wealth report, the vast majority of young investors include ESG or impact investments in their portfolios. In recent years, millennials have become more visible in the market, in terms of both presence and money invested, making this trend more noticeable. Read more about millennial’s interest in impact investments in the full article.

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  • Sign of the Times: Designation for Financial Planners Underscores Demand for Impact Investing

    via Forbesby Anne Field

    July 05, 2018

    Summary

    An impact-investing oriented professional designation for financial advisors was unveiled by the College of Financial Planning, in collaboration with the US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment. The designation, called the Chartered SRI Counselor (CSRIC), is aimed at financial advisors interested in demonstrating expertise in various responsible investing approaches. The course will likely be launched this fall.

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  • Millennials Pressure Britain into Making Pension Billions Do More Good

    via Reutersby Lee Mannion

    July 05, 2018

    Summary

    Britain announced new regulation that requires pension companies to reveal the social and environmental impact of their investments on behalf of those saving for their retirement. The new rules, prompted by demand from millennials, will allow savers to monitor how their money is being invested by the companies running pension schemes.

     

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