“Your values define you. But do your investments reflect who you are?
So your investments don’t only say good things about you,
they do good for everyone.”
UBS Together: Sustainable Investing
“Impact investment focuses on companies that support measurable positive human,
social or environmental results. Management has deliberately committed to these goals.
Financial performance is not compromised to support social impact;
in fact, the two objectives support each other.”
Forbes: Social Impact Investing
JP Morgan: A Portfolio Approach to Impact Investment
Goldman Sachs: Social Impact Fund
“Impact companies are profitable companies, often more profitable
than those that lack this focus.”
Morgan-Stanley: Investing with Impact
and
Morgan Stanley: Sustainable Investment Study
Blackrock: Throwing Weight Behind Impact Investing
Letter from the Chairman: 2019
“Purpose is not a mere tagline or marketing campaign; it is a company’s fundamental reason for being –
what it does every day to create value for its stakeholders.
Purpose is not the sole pursuit of profits but the animating force for achieving them.”
Barron’s: Sustainable Business $10-trillion Opportunity
“For example, impact investments contribute to at least one of the following fields:
education, medical sciences, health care, social and economic opportunity, cultural development, energy efficiency,
sustainable agriculture, renewable energy generation, affordable housing, water conservation and purification,
waste management, entrepreneurial and business support,
innovative financing methods, services for military veterans, and
environmental protection and rehabilitation.”
CNBC: Impact Investing Returns
Investment News: Impact Investing Analysis
World Economic Forum: Impact Investment Goes Mainstream
Cambridge Associates: Impact Investing Benchmark
Ford Foundation: The Impact of a $12 Billion Endowment
The Atlantic: Al Gore’s Impact Investment Strategy — Generation-Fund
New York Times:
Howard Buffett Heads Social Change Investment Fund
New Philanthropy: Capital Impact Study
Sonen Capital: Water as an Impact Investment
Sonen Capital: Impact Report 2014
Corporate Video: Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS)
Links:
Global Impact Investment Network
Impact Alpha News and Database
Click here for a discussion of the natural convergence
of impact investment and royalties finance.
We acknowledge the assistance of Peter McCrea of American Endowment Foundation,
advisor to Pacific Royalties, in preparing this reference.