Investing for Impact : The Global Impact Investing Market 2020
Impact investing has seen a boost in popularity during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic due to increased awareness of climate change and social challenges such as unequal access to healthcare and racial and gender inequality. In 2020, the market...
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International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/644401628704547676/Investing-for-Impact-The-Global-Impact-Investing-Market-2020 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36263 |
| Summary: | Impact investing has seen a boost in
popularity during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic due to
increased awareness of climate change and social challenges
such as unequal access to healthcare and racial and gender
inequality. In 2020, the market saw an increasing level of
maturity compared to 2019 with more assets being invested
with identifiable impact management systems. This report
covers impact investments by privately owned funds and
institutions, and by publicly owned development finance
institutions and development banks. It includes all
investments with an intent for impact and identifies a core
which have impact management systems to provide a credible
contribution to impact and measurement of impact. Intent,
contribution and measurement are the key attributes which
differentiate impact investing from other forms of
sustainable or responsible investing. In total, the report
identifies a total of 2.3 trillion Dollars being invested
for impact in 2020. This is equivalent to about 2 percent of
global AUM. Impact investing remains a small market niche,
but one that is attracting growing interest. Additionally,
the report shares findings on broader trends relating to
investing for impact, including opportunities in publicly
traded assets. IFC's report is the most comprehensive
assessment so far of the size of the global impact investing
market. Findings from the report are based on publicly
available information and verifiable data from selected
proprietary databases. |
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