IMPACT INVESTING
WHY IMPACT INVESTING?
The existential challenges of our time demand a fundamental realignment of business as usual, transitioning our economies from extractive to regenerative. Philanthropy alone cannot meet the scale of these challenges; the annual financing gap to achieve the SGDs sits in the trillions, while philanthropic budgets sit in the billions.
Impact investing is therefore essential, allowing us to deploy our full balance sheet to accelerate change at the scale the world requires.
OUR APPROACH
Beginning our impact investing journey in 2016, we didn’t limit ourselves to certain sectors, impact themes or geographies, but rather how we could maximise our impact generally. Now, we are focusing on how all our capital can be directed toward addressing the greatest challenge of our time and specifically how our investments can support a just transition.
The complexity of transitioning to an abundant, regenerative economy necessitates a systemic approach to deploying capital with the intention of advancing environmental sustainability and social justice. Visit the TransCap Initiative for more information on systemic investing.
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The following core characteristics developed by the GIIN define the baseline expectations for impact investing:
INTENTIONALITY
Impact investing is marked by an intentional desire to contribute to measurable social or environmental benefit.
MANAGE IMPACT PERFORMANCE
Impact investing necessitates that investments be managed toward our desire to contribute to measurable social or environmental benefit(s). This includes having feedback loops in place and communicating performance information to support others in the investment chain towards impact.
USE EVIDENCE AND IMPACT DATA IN INVESTMENT DESIGN
Investments cannot be designed on hunches, and impact investing needs to use evidence and data where available to drive intelligent investment design that will be useful in contributing to social and environmental benefits.
CONTRIBUTE TO THE GROWTH OF THE INDUSTRY
Impact investors share learnings to enable others to learn from their experience as to what contributes to social and environmental benefit. Evidenced by the resources made publicly available by leaders in the sector - visit our Sharing page for more information.