In 2016, the global action community for impact investors – Toniic – launched the Impact Advisory Survey From this survey, 37 Impact Advisors provided their insights in helping investors move their portfolios into impact There were 6x key findings including that: there has been a significant increase in the depth and diversity of impact intermediary […]
Below we share a testimony from one of our ACT graduates – Peachy Dunne from Aqua IFA Ltd. Peachy is a newly qualified IFA. She agreed to share her feedback on the Adviser Competency Training (ACT) for social investment manual, her experiences of finding out about social impact investing (SII), the shifting client views she’s […]
Advisers commonly ask us “How do you structure a dialogue on social impact investments to draw out a client’s interest in this area without taking them on a guilt trip?!” Every investment has an impact but how can you start to categorise what those impacts might be in order to better understand client objectives, manage […]
Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) has the potential to become a game changer for the thought leading financial planner looking to grow their High Net Worth client base and develop referrals from professional connections. HMRC statistics tell us that the number of higher rate taxpayers in the UK has doubled in the past ten years […]
Paradigm Norton (PN) and the Aspire Gloucestershire Bond – an end to end story of social investment advice in action with Lee Dunn. The opportunity Motivated by a social investment focused on an area close to their office in Bristol, and the fact that the product was applying for Social Investment Tax Relief, PN decided […]
In an effort to equip financial advisers to offer impact investment as an advice option, here are 4 tools Worthstone are already working on in this tax year.