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Are you an Impact Investor?

What is impact investing?

Impact Investing is investing into companies and organizations with the intent to contribute to measurable positive social or environmental impact alongside financial returns.


The Impact Principles

The Impact Principles, launched in April 2019, provide a framework for investors to ensure that impact considerations are purposefully integrated throughout the investment life cycle...

The Signatories

Signatories to the Impact Principles are a diverse group of impact investors, comprised of asset managers, asset owners, Multilateral Development Banks and Development Finance Institutions...

Signatory Process

Organizations that have established an impact management system that aligns with the Impact Principles may complete the Signatory documentation provided by the Secretariat…

Latest from the Impact Principles

Advisory Board Election Results


We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2024 Advisory Board election as well as our new Convenor, Danielle Brassel of Zurich Insurance Group. A huge thank you to all our nominees and to all the Signatories who submitted ballots. Click below to learn more about our new Advisory Board.

Principle 9 and Verification Guidance

 

Introducing a new series of resources on Common and Emerging Practices in the implementation of the Impact Principles!

This first guidance aims to address a desire among the community for a better understanding of the types of verifiers and verification services, as well as for more consistency between them. 

IDB Invest Sustainability Week


We were delighted to participate in IDB Invest Sustainability Week 2024 this June in Manaus, Brazil. 

Impact Principles’ Advisory Board member Alessandro Maffioli from IDB Invest moderated a panel titled "Impact Management as a Conduit for Scaling Capital Mobilization and Impact," and he was joined by the Head of Secretariat Joohee Rand and representatives from BlueOrchard Finance Ltd and BTG Pactual. Read more and watch the recording below.

Impact Principles Webinar Series

Publications & Media

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The GIIN's Sizing the Impact Investing Market Report 2024

In its new Sizing the Impact Investing Market 2024 report, the GIIN estimates that the worldwide impact investing market includes 3,907 organizations that currently manage $1.571 trillion USD in impact investing assets under management (AUM) worldwide, representing 21% compound annual growth (CAGR) of the total impact investing market since 2019. This report also contains insights into the main capital influencers on the impact investing market, statistics on impact portfolio sizes and snapshots into regional and related efforts in sizing the impact investing market.

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The GIIN's State of the Market 2024

The GIIN's State of the Market 2024: Trends, Performance, and Allocations builds on the results of the 2024 Impact Investor Survey to provide market insights, help explain investors' challenges, and highlight opportunities for the impact investing market. The report reveals steady growth in impact investing assets and satisfaction with financial performance among survey participants, and it highlights the rise of equity-like debt and public asset classes as key developments in the market.

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Inclusive Business Investing Guide

Created by Impact Principles Signatories, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), British International Investment (BII), and the Dutch development bank FMO, the new Inclusive Business Investing Guide aims to help investors allocate capital to inclusive businesses and to support inclusive business strategies among their investee companies. 

New Signatories in 2024

  • ImpactA Global Limited
  • Evenlode Impact Limited
  • Quadria Capital Investment Management Pte. Ltd.
  • MedAccess Guarantee LTD
  • EQT AB
  • Jonathan Rose Companies
  • Brookfield Renewable Energy Group LLC
  • Conscious Investment Management Pty Ltd
  • AEW UK Investment LLP
  • Chiratae Capital Management LLP
  • Schneider Electric SE