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Capturing the impact opportunity: A practical guide for wealth managers
This guide provides first-of-its-kind insight into the state of the UK’s wealth management impact offering, the challenges to unlocking greater levels of adoption and how leaders in the space have overcome these hurdles to build successful impact propositions.
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Unlocking the potential of community-based finance
This report examines the diverse ecosystem of community-based finance in the UK, mapping the key actors, mechanisms, and success stories that demonstrate its potential.
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Place-based impact investing: Emerging impact and insights
Place-based impact investing: Emerging impact and insights is a short report that provides a snapshot of the evolving place-based impact investing (PBII) landscape since the publication of our our joint white paper, Scaling up institutional investment for place-based impact, published in 2021.
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Fostering impact: An investor guide for engaging communities in place-based impact investing
The Institute’s community engagement guide empowers investors to identify and pursue community engagement opportunities within a place-based impact investing approach.
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Just Transition Criteria – a practical tool for fund managers
The Institute’s Just Transition Criteria are a ‘first of its kind’ practical tool for fund managers who want to invest in a transition to a net zero world that prioritises the needs of the planet and the people living on it.
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Bridging capital into communities: A practical guide for policy makers
In this report we consider the effectiveness of grant, guarantee and tax relief subsidy approaches in the UK to improve the financing of social enterprises, charities as well as small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs).
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Financing structures for place-based impact investing – what works?
In May 2021, our white paper “Scaling up institutional investment for place-based impact” identified a barrier which could prevent institutional investors from adopting a place-based approach: the lack of appropriate financing vehicles through which to invest.
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Originating place-based impact investments
The origination of place-based impact investment opportunities is highly complex, making it difficult to connect institutional investors seeking to adopt place-based strategies with the fund managers and enterprises who meet their needs.
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Building Strong Places: a new, impactful role for financial institutions
Our report, “Building Strong Places: a new, impactful role for financial institutions” was written with Metro Dynamics for Lloyds Banking Group, and explores how mainstream financial institutions can engage in place-based impact investing.
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White Paper: Scaling up institutional investment for place-based impact
Our joint white paper “Scaling up institutional investment for place-based impact” sets out the case for institutional investors to adopt a “place-based lens.” The report shows that there are real opportunities for investors to secure financial returns while addressing place-based inequalities and support more inclusive and sustainable development across the UK.
