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Impact investing presentation for charitable foundations
A downloadable presentation to help facilitate conversations about impact investing within charitable foundations. It provides an introduction to impact investing, busts prevalent myths, highlights key arguments in favour of the approach and provides steps on how to get started, all supported by detailed speaker notes.
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Finance for Impact Summit
The Finance for Impact Summit brought together leaders of finance, business, governments and other institutions from around the world to discuss how we can better harness finance for the good of people and the planet.
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COP26: Finance, Governance and Sustainability
Held in partnership with the University of Glasgow, this event featured two panel discussions focusing on issues which are central to the ongoing development of sustainable finance in the UK: green bonds, and fiduciary duty and sustainable investment.
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COP26: Pensions with impact – Adopting a transitional mindset for a better future
Held in the COP26 Green Zone. this event heard from a range of voices in the industry sharing the investment opportunities and case studies presented by adopting a Just Transition investing approach, the advantages for institutional investors, such as pensions funds, in adopting a transitional mindset and how that can help to build socially and…
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Endowments with impact with Dame Elizabeth Corley and Kieron Boyle
In the second instalment of our In Conversation series, Dame Elizabeth Corley, our Chair, spoke to Kieron Boyle, CEO of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation about impact investing in the endowment and St Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation’s journey from small beginnings to the biggest impact allocation ever made by a UK foundation.
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Accelerating the ‘S’ in ESG
Together with the Human Rights Watch, a panel of experts explored how investors and organisations can boost their positive impact by addressing social issues whilst delivering a financial return.
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Investing with impact in the endowment
Our paper, “Investing for impact in the endowment: Why do it and how to get started”, is a practical guide designed to help foundation leaders and the constellation of professionals that surround them to make their first moves into impact investing.
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Can Charities Invest their Endowment with impact?
In this paper, we explain why we think charity trustees should feel confident in concluding that, in the round, both from a “mission lens” and a “financial lens”, impact investing is an approach which can most effectively advance the objects, mission, and work of the charity as a whole.
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The Realities of Impact Investing in 2021: In Conversation with Sir Ronald Cohen and Dame Elizabeth Corley
Watch our webinar with Sir Ronald Cohen and Dame Elizabeth Corley on the power of impact investing, how adapting our business practices to be more transparent in our disclosures and reporting as well introducing Impact weighted accounts, can make a positive change towards a net-zero carbon economy that will bring a range of positive social…
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Fiduciary Duty: a duty to care or a duty of care?
What does the legal obligation on trustees to act in the best interest of their scheme’s members mean in the context of the need to manage the world’s environmental and social challenges?
