This Financial Times article discusses the entry of more pension funds into the impact investing space as they realize the practice is “directly relevant to the interests and long-term security of their clients and beneficiaries.” Author Catherine Howarth explains the important role institutional investors can play in the achievement of impact investing’s mission, in terms of both capital and influence. Howarth also references the GIIN’s Core Characteristics of Impact Investing to underscore the need for “every fiduciary investor, including every pension fund, [to see] themselves as an impact investor” in order to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.

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