Beginning the week with a review of Impact Investing as a whole…
Investors Committed $15 Billion To Social Progress & Profit In 2015
Jessica Leber – Co.Exist
Co.Exist has covered the emergence of the impact investing sector over the last decade, from something that no one had ever heard of to a phenomenon that governments around the world are now working to actively encourage.
The latest annual survey from the Global Impact Investor Network (GIIN) shows this strength. According to the organization, which surveyed 158 major impact investors, there are now at least $77 billion assets under management that qualify as impact investments, and a total of $15 billion committed in more than 7,500 deals in 2015 alone. This is not an estimate of the entire global market, which is difficult to measure, but a good idea of its strength. Importantly, nearly 90% of all respondents said the financial performance of their investments were “in line with or above expectations.”
“The data show impact investing is no longer a nascent market,” writes GIIN CEO Amit Bouri.