Impact Investor Conference: Growing the sector to maximise impact

In this ImpactInvestor article, author Hans van de Veen discusses how to grow the impact investment space to maximize impact, an issue that was debated at the first Impact Investor Conference in Amsterdam which took place last week. Veen writes, “The size of impact investing market has surpassed the $1 trillion mark, according to the latest figures from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). ‘A significant milestone’, according to Wouter Koelewijn, senior advisor, Europe, at the GIIN. During a panel discussion at last week’s Impact Investor Conference in Amsterdam, Koelewijn added that this figure represents only a tiny percentage of the total global financial sector and it is far from what is needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.”