Our open-source Learning Hub, named by Forbes as a go-to resource for impact investing, provides individuals and organisations with knowledge and skills to invest for impact with confidence.
This Learning Hub is designed to help you learn more about impact investing either to meet your personal interest or to support your work.
The modules below will help you build your knowledge and skills so that you can do impact investing with confidence. They draw extensively on research and reports from leading organisations such as the Global Impact Investing Network, the Impact Management Platform, as well as on our own resources.
Our Learning Hub has been designed with the help of experts in the field. We are looking to improve and expand the resources on the Hub on a continuous basis and welcome your feedback. Get in touch at learning@impactinvest.org.uk
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Knowledge
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Introduction to impact investing
Read more: Introduction to impact investingEveryone’s first question about impact investment is ‘so what is impact investing?’ This module defines impact investing, tells you how impact investing has developed, how it fits in with the rest of the investment world, what some of the challenges it faces are and what the key terms mean. Start here.
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The purpose of impact investing
Read more: The purpose of impact investingThis is about the ‘why’ of impact investing. How do impact investors see the world and what are the frameworks that they work with to identify the impact of their investments? This module provides the answers, lists some of the challenges that impact investment sets out to address (as well as some of the constraints)…
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The impact investing market
Read more: The impact investing marketImpact investing is developing and growing fast. Here you will learn about the current research on the size and shape of the market, who the investors and investees are and gain insight into some of the strategies that leading investors use.
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Asset classes and products
Read more: Asset classes and productsIt is possible to invest with impact across all asset classes in some form. The traditional preference for venture capital and private equity is starting to break down as investors seek scale in public markets.
Skills
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Impact measurement, management and reporting
Read more: Impact measurement, management and reportingManaging impact is one of the core characteristics of impact investment – and you cannot manage what you cannot measure. This module takes you into the nuts and bolts of impact investment and leads you gently and logically through the steps you need to take to get it right. Standards, logic frameworks, theories of change?…
Impact investing approaches
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Impact investing in the main endowment
Read more: Impact investing in the main endowmentAs part of our endowments with impact programme, we have compiled a set of resources that trusts, foundations, and other endowed bodies may find helpful as they explore impact investing.
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Place-based impact investing
Read more: Place-based impact investingPrivate capital, including pension money, can address place-based inequalities across the UK and secure financial returns at the same time. This module explores how.
Impact investing in practice
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Advising on impact investment
Read more: Advising on impact investmentIndividual investors, family offices, endowments and other institutions are moving beyond Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration and seeking measurable impact as well as a financial return. Those that serve them are having to build new skills.
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Building and managing impact investment products
Read more: Building and managing impact investment productsThe surging interest in impact investment is leading to a rush of new products coming to the market. It has always been important to ensure that impact investment products have a clear purpose and are managed well. Now, it is more important than ever.
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Investing in and managing impact assets
Read more: Investing in and managing impact assetsInstitutional investors have long made investments that have impact, for example in assets such as infrastructure and social housing, just perhaps without the intentionality that characterises impact investment. Increasingly, investors are adopting and helping to develop impact investment practices.
Case studies
View our evidence base for investors that features examples of impact investments across asset classes and geographies.
Publications
View our reports, consultation responses, and research, available to everyone interested impact investing.