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Impact investing – which offers social and environmental benefits as well as financial returns – is still developing but the UK’s newly created Impact Investing Institute, created from a merger of two related bodies, is working to accelerate this, as its CEO Sarah Gordon tells Silvia Pavoni.

A piece in this weekend’s Financial Times shows that there are still some pretty basic misunderstandings around impact investment, which must be cleared up if the market is to grow as we want it to.

First announced in June, the UK’s newest impact investing body launches this week. We met CEO (and former business journalist) Sarah Gordon, who spoke to us about the rise of enlightened boardrooms, why she’s so keen to avoid reinventing the wheel – and why the startup will soon be having a few words with its…

The Impact Investing Institute which aims to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of impact investing, launches this week at events in Sheffield and London. The Institute is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness of, addressing barriers to, and increasing confidence in investing for impact.

Year after year, research highlights the gap between what impact investment consumers want and what they are being offered by advisers, banks and pension funds. The UK’s new Impact Investing Institute hopes to bring everyone to the table to change this.

The UK’s social investment movement is gathering pace and the launch of the Impact Investing Institute this week has the potential to add booster fuel to this engine for building a better society.

Most people, when given the option, want their savings to make a positive difference to the world. Why then do so few actually make this choice? Extinction Rebellion has provided powerful evidence of the public’s growing anger over the inaction of policy-makers globally in the face of climate change.

Companies seeking to promote sustainability deliver better returns over the long term “It’s not up to us to save the world.” This was the response I received from a trustee of one of the UK’s largest pension schemes recently to my pitch for impact investment.