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RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM) in the U.S. releases 'Align Your Portfolio with Your Values,' a new white paper in which Senior Portfolio Manager Scott Kirby explores several straightforward impact investing approaches institutional investors can implement in their U.S. fixed income portfolios. Kirby, who serves as co-portfolio manager for RBC GAM’s impact investing strategy, explains that choosing from the host of potential impact outcomes and available investment instruments can be an obstacle to some investors, particularly those who are new to the impact arena.

From original article:"Impact investing has gained a great deal of attention, as of late, as a way for investors to pursue investment returns while making an array of social and environmental impacts. While this changing field can be inspiring and exciting, it can seem too abstract and complicated for an institutional investor to implement in a portfolio. We explain one view of impact investing and one practical approach to applying it to a U.S. fixed income portfolio."