The words ‘Impact Investing’ and the rhetoric around achieving positive impact via investments has been steadily increasing for some time. Here we provide evidence that challenges the common misconceptions still persisting including: the lack of sector growth financial concessions for impact gains a lack of available funds ‘impact washing’ and the lack of language that advisers […]
Agricultural chemical giant, Monsanto, has once again hit the news for all the wrong reasons. It is the subject of a lawsuit for allegedly causing cancer through its flagship weed killer, Roundup. How does this relate to you? This landmark legal case is just the latest controversy of a series dating back many decades including […]
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 […]
On the 12th October 2017, UN PRI and PwC published a report outlining “why the investment community should adopt an active role in achieving real world impact through implementation of the SDGs.” On the UN PRI website they outline the 5 key messages from the report: The SDGs represent the globally agreed world’s most pressing […]
We’ve done the legwork for you and here are 3 news-worthy items to keep you up to date on the latest sector news: Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler recently won “for his contributions to behavioural economics”, here’s a topical paper released here for the first time focusing on impact investing from a behavioural economic viewpoint. […]