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Impact investing grows to address problems raised by pandemic
Impact investing expands to tackle problems health crisis exposed
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Fran Seegull cited the unequal impact of the pandemic across society as driving asset owners’ increased awareness of systemic risks from a host of issues.
Sometimes a crisis can help bring positive change. For impact investing, the COVID-19 pandemic and the inequities it exposed are boosting its outlook.
Impact investments are made with the intention of generating positive and measurable social, economic and environmental outcomes as well as a financial return. Asset owners and managers put them under various asset and strategy buckets, including ESG or sustainable investing and note that the one shorthand definition to differentiate ESG from impact is that ESG tends to be more about risk management, while impact investments are specifically intentional.
How to measure impact a work in progress
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Amit Bouri said the GIIN’s catalog of performance metrics, called IRIS+, gets its 17,000 users ‘speaking the same language.’
Institutional investors require certain tools for making decisions clear definitions of asset classes, performance benchmarks, ratings and ways to compare.
When it comes to impact investing, however, those tools are still works in progress.
In May, the Global Impact Investing Network released its Compass methodology to give investors insight into three critical impact performance figures: scale, pace and efficiency. It also makes it possible to compare impact results. The ultimate goal of the methodology is to help develop impact benchmarks, ratings and other tools.
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