“Over the past decade, we have seen incredible growth and increased sophistication in impact investing. Despite challenges or perhaps because of them, many investors have, and will continue to turn to impact investing to contribute to social and environmental solutions,” said Amit Bouri, Co-Founder and CEO of the GIIN.
The survey includes 294 of the world’s leading impact investors, who collectively manage US$404 billion of impact investing assets.
While the pandemic has increased indecision among investors, the poll reveals that 57% of investors are unlikely to change their planned allocations for 2020; 15% are likely to increase impact investment allocations, while 20% said they are “somewhat likely” to allocate less.
Seeing the impact
Measuring the impact of investments is key to the success of the market and the GIIN report calls for greater depth and refinement of impact measurement and management (IMM) practices.
Top sectors to which respondents allocated capital were energy (16%), followed by financial services (excluding microfinance), with 12% of sample AUM.
