Publications

Lasting Impact: The Need for Responsible Exits

Lasting Impact: The Need for Responsible Exits demonstrates why and how investors attempt to safeguard the continuity of their investments’ impact…

Read Amit Bouri’s take on The State of Impact Measurement and Management Practice, including his call for greater transparency, coordination, and streamlining across the impact investing indu

The impact investing community must actively move toward greater coordination and streamlining of IMM practice if we are to effectively use capital to address, and ultimately solve, the most critical social and environmental problems facing our world today. The GIIN is committed to working with other field-builders to further advance impact measurement and management practice by developing guidance, reducing fragmentation, and promoting best practices.

Discovering “Social Value 99” in China: A Social Value Assessment Report on A-share Listed Companies (2017)

Initiated by the China Alliance of Social Value Investment (CASVI) and co-developed by 68 leading experts from 42 domestic and international…

Learn about the development of the impact investing market, Impact Investing: The First Ten Years, featuring key insights from GIIN Board members Antony Bugg-Levine, Marilou van Golstein Brou

In recognition of the 10th anniversary of the coining of the term “impact investing”, the GIIN has been reflecting on the market’s progress to date and the work still left to be done. GIIN Strategy Director Sapna Shah spoke with these three industry pioneers, whose actions have helped establish the impact investing industry over the last ten years.

Understanding and Applying Evidence on the Financial Performance of Impact Investments

Find out about the financial performance of impact investments in an Op-ed by GIIN Research Director, Abhilash Mudaliar

Growing data on financial performance confirms that market rates of return are possible. Increased transparency around both financial and impact performance will enable financial advisors to make more informed decisions for clients, and give more investors the confidence to enter the space.

First Edition

This report, The State of Impact Measurement and Management Practice, presents findings from the GIIN’s first comprehensive survey of the state…

Learn about the power of capacity-building support in impact investing in an Op-ed by Research Director, Abhilash Mudaliar

The GIIN reviews capacity-building practices of 31 investors, and urges greater knowledge-sharing and collaboration, especially in emerging markets.

Read Amit's thoughts on the three key takeaways from the GIIN's 2017 Annual Impact Investor Survey

The GIIN encourages readers to recognize the role they can play in completely reinventing the capital markets for greater social/environmental impact.

GIIN Perspectives: Evidence on the Financial Performance of Impact Investments

The GIIN’s report, GIIN Perspectives: Evidence on the Financial Performance of Impact Investments, provides investors with a comprehensive review…

Read Amit Bouri's Commentary: Driving capital to impact investing with an eye on 2030 in Pensions & Investments

The GIIN reminds readers that we have nowhere near the capital needed to tackle the problems targeted by the Sustainable Development Goals. The ask is for large scale investors to be more transparent about their investment criteria, product developers to respond to those criteria, and for more co-creation of large-scale investment products.