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  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Introduction to the Mainstreaming Impact Investing Initiative
  • 3. More than an Idea: Creating the Case for Impact Investing
    • 3.1 Enhancing Financial Returns by Targeting Social Impact
    • 3.2 Making Impact Investing an Institutional Priority for Achieving Superior Investment Performance
    • 3.3 Evaluating Past “Impactful” Investments to Create a Future Impact Investing Strategy
    • 3.4 The Current Limits and Potential Role of Institutional Investment Culture and Fiduciary Responsibility
  • 4. Building a Strategy: Integrating Impact Investing in the Mainstream Investor’s Portfolio
    • 4.1 A Portfolio Approach to Impact Investment: A Framework for Balancing Impact, Return and Risk
    • 4.2 Leveraging Expertise across Asset Classes for an Institutional Impact Investment Mandate
    • 4.3 Incorporating Impact Criteria in Portfolio Construction: From Policy to Implementation
    • 4.4 How to Evaluate Impact Investing Fund Managers
    • 4.5 Best Practices of High-Performing Impact Investing Fund Managers
    • 4.6 Achieving Portfolio Diversification and Double Bottom Line through Investing in Underserved Markets
    • 4.7 Impact Investing through Advisers and Managers who Understand Institutional Client Needs
  • 5. Innovations for Unlocking Mainstream Capital
    • 5.1 Social Stock Exchanges: Democratizing Impact Investing
    • 5.2 Commingling Funds: Scaling Impact while Protecting the Interests of Diverse Capital Providers
    • 5.3 The Social Impact Bond Market: Three Scenarios for the Future
  • 6. Road Map: Next Steps for Mainstreaming Impact Investing
  • 7. Acknowledgements and About the Authors
Impact Investing – From Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy Home Previous Next
  • Report Home
  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Introduction to the Mainstreaming Impact Investing Initiative
  • 3. More than an Idea: Creating the Case for Impact Investing
    • 3.1 Enhancing Financial Returns by Targeting Social Impact
    • 3.2 Making Impact Investing an Institutional Priority for Achieving Superior Investment Performance
    • 3.3 Evaluating Past “Impactful” Investments to Create a Future Impact Investing Strategy
    • 3.4 The Current Limits and Potential Role of Institutional Investment Culture and Fiduciary Responsibility
  • 4. Building a Strategy: Integrating Impact Investing in the Mainstream Investor’s Portfolio
    • 4.1 A Portfolio Approach to Impact Investment: A Framework for Balancing Impact, Return and Risk
    • 4.2 Leveraging Expertise across Asset Classes for an Institutional Impact Investment Mandate
    • 4.3 Incorporating Impact Criteria in Portfolio Construction: From Policy to Implementation
    • 4.4 How to Evaluate Impact Investing Fund Managers
    • 4.5 Best Practices of High-Performing Impact Investing Fund Managers
    • 4.6 Achieving Portfolio Diversification and Double Bottom Line through Investing in Underserved Markets
    • 4.7 Impact Investing through Advisers and Managers who Understand Institutional Client Needs
  • 5. Innovations for Unlocking Mainstream Capital
    • 5.1 Social Stock Exchanges: Democratizing Impact Investing
    • 5.2 Commingling Funds: Scaling Impact while Protecting the Interests of Diverse Capital Providers
    • 5.3 The Social Impact Bond Market: Three Scenarios for the Future
  • 6. Road Map: Next Steps for Mainstreaming Impact Investing
  • 7. Acknowledgements and About the Authors

From Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy

Practical Solutions and Actionable Insights on How to Do Impact Investing

A report by the World Economic Forum Investors Industries
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From Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy is both an attempt – and an opportunity – to disseminate the best practices and lessons learned from the first movers, early adopters and bold innovators in the field of impact investing, with the goal of further advancing the sector.

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