Ready to network, learn and get inspired? Don't book your diary without the Pioneers Post roundup of social impact events coming soon – for social entrepreneurs, impact investors and all those working within the global impact economy.
The GIIN’s latest State of the Market survey suggests impact investors might be a bit overoptimistic about their work – whether that's looking at issues like impact washing or impact performance. Does this risk undermining trust in the sector?
Impact assets under management keep growing but yearly investment volume drops as impact investors report economic headwinds – while they move towards 'safe' investments in mature companies and developed markets.
This week: Why over half the world’s workers will need retraining by 2030, social entrepreneurs on the UK New Year’s Honours list, US$100m fund for climate adaptation for women launches, and more.
This week: ‘motherhood penalty’ beats back potential women social entrepreneurs, Asian impact investments on the rise, Spain’s social impact wholesaler gets up and running, and more.
Conversations at the GIIN Impact Forum reveal growing momentum for natural capital – a young field that could become a staple of impact investing, as essential to the world as renewable energy.
Pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors are now major actors in the global impact investing landscape, reveals the GIIN’s 2024 market sizing research.
Just 15% of impact investors compare impact results with peers, according to wide-ranging research from GIIN – which calls on individual investors to show “leadership” and “share impact data at scale”.
