Kreutzer’s Take: Will Big Firms Prove Impact Can Scale?

In this article, Laura Kreutzer examines how there is a push from megafirms to enter the impact investment space, which could create the potential to “address one of the larger challenges facing impact investors and their backers: how to scale portfolios without sacrificing either financial returns or social goods.” Kreutzer highlights Bain Capital and TPG Growth as two examples of 'megafirms' firms that could address market barriers and attract others to the space. She also quotes GIIN CEO Amit Bouri about the role for these types of investors as the industry matures, and “cautions that firms will have to prove they can bring the same level of expertise to generating social impact as they bring to producing financial returns.”