The impact investing market
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Impact investing market structure, size and trends
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Creating Impact: The Promise of Impact Investing (Chapters 2 & 3)
International Finance Corporation
Reading time: 90 minutes
Chapter 2 presents a deep dive into some of the challenges facing the impact investing world, exploring financial returns, impact management and frameworks, and regulatory barriers. Chapter 3 explores the scalability of the concept of impact investing and the importance of collective action and collaboration for the future.
What the reviewer found helpful:“A very detailed paper covering impact measurement theories and frameworks and using helpful diagrams to aid explanation.”
Mhairi Littlewood
Advanced
Impact investing across asset classes and public/private markets
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Supply (investors) and demand (investees)
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Impact investing strategies
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Market participants: Investors, investees, intermediaries, policy-makers and standard setters
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Catalysing an impact investing ecosystem
Global Steering Group for Impact Investment
Reading time: 2-4 hours
Examines the role of government in the impact investment ecosystem and highlights how policy making can be catalytic based on an analysis of selected countries. Identifies 15 key policy tools that governments use in order to catalyse the impact ecosystem. Provides examples of successful implementation policy tools to catalyse the impact ecosystem in selected countries.
What the reviewer found helpful:“Insights on the phases of policy making to steer the growth/evolution of the impact ecosystem and the country by country toolboxes.”
Advanced
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From the Margins to the Mainstream: Impact investing ecosystem
World Economic Forum
Reading time: 15 minutes
The World Economic Forum outlines the actions required by various agents within the impact ecosystem to mainstream impact investing. It gives detailed suggestions across all aspects of the ecosystem; from capital providers, Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), foundations, pension funds and insurance companies, university endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and investment funds. This chapter also outlines the actions financial intermediaries should take to create liquidity, reduce risk, and lower transaction costs, to facilitate a more fluent payment mechanism.
What the reviewer found helpful:“The flow charts help to visualise where improvements can be made along payment mechanisms within the sector to mainstream impact investing”
Serena Grover
Advanced
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Impact Investing Market Map
United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment
Reading time: 50 minutes
The report showcases the PRIs Market Map, which was designed to help investors identify mainstream impact and thematic investments. The SDGs and PRI reporting framework were used to identify 10 themes which are linked to the SDGs. An introduction to the Market Map and how it was designed is provided and then each theme is explored in detail in the Market Map which provides a definition of the theme, thematic and financials conditions required to identify investments aligned to the theme and KPIs that can be used to track performance of a theme.
What the reviewer found helpful:“Most helpful was the identification of sub-themes and the resulting company types that meet the definition, alongside those which would not meet the criteria ”
Chloe Mallo
Advanced