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Annual GIIN survey reveals dynamic and diverse impact investing market
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has published the eighth edition of its Annual Impact Investor Survey, which reveals that the impact investing industry is growing steadily.
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Impact Investors Hold US$228 Billion in Assets
While not comprehensive, the annual survey “represents the largest exercise of its type in the market,”says Abhilash Mudaliar, the GIIN’s director of research.
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Press release: Evidence for competitive financial performance of impact investing through private debt highlighted by new study
A new report by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Symbiotics, which analyzes the performance of impact investing through private debt, finds that private debt funds seeking positive impact can offer very stable returns across various risk-return strategies.
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GIIN Roadmap Presents ‘Unashamedly Ambitious’ Vision For Impact Investing
The framework, which was started to coincide with the 10 year anniversary of the coining of the term impact investing, assesses industry progress to date and outlines specific actions needed to exponentially enhance the scale and effectiveness of impact investing across the world.
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Press release: New report provides insight into replicable practices for a critical phase of impact investments
“Impact investing has huge potential to generate positive long-term outcomes for society and the environment,” said GIIN Research Director Abhilash Mudaliar. “But investors need to have the confidence that they will be able to exit responsibly. There are many more exit approaches to meet financial objectives and ensure sustained impact post-exit than investors may be aware of. This report should provide impact investors with proven strategies that they can use to exit their investments in ways that won’t jeopardize the impact they seek to create.”
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Impact Investing Can Be Profitable, New Report Says
Throughout the industry’s development, however, some investors have questioned the ability of impact investments to generate financial returns similar to traditional investments, and lack of data has left this question unanswerable. Now a new report from the Global Impact Investing Network looks to recent research that it says has shed valuable light on what are appropriate and achievable financial performance expectations.
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The Philanthropy World is Embracing Impact Investing
Instead of just using the stock market, more and more foundations putting their endowments into projects that help the world–including hitting the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Study Calls on Impact Investors to Close Educational Attainment Gaps
According to a recent Global Impact Investing Network survey, impact investments in the education sector accounted for only 2 percent of global impact investing assets under management. The report further suggests that foundations can play a catalytic role in ensuring the flow of capital to educational organizations and for interventions designed to boost equitable access to higher education for underserved populations through the provision of "blended capital" (a combination of grants, "patient" or more affordable equity, and/or debt capital).
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