Impact investing’s case for scale

Impact investing’s case for scale

Impact investing has come a long way in the past two decades, going from a niche strategy to a $1.5 trillion industry, but there are still challenges for it to reach institutional scale due to the lack of products and insufficient evidence of outperformance in some parts of the market.

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COVID-19: Managing supply chain risk

Could COVID-19 be the event that finally forces many companies, and entire industries, to rethink and transform their global supply chain model?

Three pillars to the economic response

Academics at Chicago Booth looks at three important pillars of the economic policy response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Global macroeconomic impacts of COVID-19

The scenarios in this paper demonstrate that even a contained outbreak could significantly impact the global economy in the short run.

A decade needs a purpose

The decade ahead promises to be one in which purpose gets to be much more widely entrenched and influential. And asset owners have a role to play in the path to purposeful capitalism.

Modern slavery needs investor action

Asset owners and managers can help solve modern slavery and invest to stem the suffering of the 40.3 million workers in the world trapped in some form of labour abuse.

Impact investment continues to evolve

Impact investment and its combination of financial returns and social or environmental purpose is beginning to move from fringe to the financial mainstream in part because the long-held concept that investment should only maximise shareholder value is beginning to fade.

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