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Impact investment market reached $715bn heading into 2020

Friday, June 12, 2020

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

The $715 billion global impact investing market, or assets devoted to investing to achieve positive social and environmental impact as well as a financial return, is maturing, driven by strong performance and better measurement said a study.

According to the survey by Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), intentions are translating into real results for impact investors, with 99% of the almost 300 investors who responded to the most comprehensive survey of the market to date saying that they have met or exceeded their impact performance goals, and 88% meeting or exceeding their financial expectations.

The GIIN 10th Annual Impact Investor Survey covered 294 impact investors, who collectively manage USD404 billion of impact investing assets - over half of the entire impact investing market.

Over the past four years, the aggregate AUM of the impact investors that have been repeating respondents to GIIN's annual survey has almost doubled from USD52 billion to USD98 billion - with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) among those investors of 17%.

The top sectors for capital allocations reported by respondents are energy and financial services, excluding microfinance. 55% are in developed markets and 30% are in North America.

Respondents who also participated in the 2016 survey reported 17% compound annual growth, up to $98 billion from $52 billion.

Of the 294 respondents in this year's survey, 57% said that despite uncerta......................

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