All our reports, consultation responses, and research are available to everyone interested in learning more about impact investing.
Publications
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Unlocking Investor Action: Just Transition in India’s Fashion Sector
Read this publication: Unlocking Investor Action: Just Transition in India’s Fashion SectorThis learning report explores how capital can be mobilised for a just transition across one of the world’s most labour-intensive industries.
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Mapping the UK Values-Driven Investment Landscape
Read this publication: Mapping the UK Values-Driven Investment LandscapeMapping the UK Values-Driven Investment Landscape forms part of a wider effort to understand how the UK trust and foundation sector can be best catalysed to consider the impact of every pound of their assets.
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Place-Based Impact Investing: Ambition to Action
Read this publication: Place-Based Impact Investing: Ambition to ActionOur newest guide, “Place-Based Impact Investing: Ambition to Action” is designed as an introductory resource to support you to move from ambition to action. It acts as a gateway to the PBII ecosystem, providing practical pathways to build capacity and networks and to strengthen readiness for investment partnerships.
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Capturing the impact opportunity: A practical guide for wealth managers
Read this publication: Capturing the impact opportunity: A practical guide for wealth managersThis 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
Read this publication: Unlocking the potential of community-based financeThis 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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The UK impact investing market: Size, scope, and potential
Read this publication: The UK impact investing market: Size, scope, and potentialOur second research report estimating the size and the features of the UK impact investing market shows that the market has grown to £76.8 billion.
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Place-based impact investing: Emerging impact and insights
Read this publication: Place-based impact investing: Emerging impact and insightsPlace-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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Evolving your endowment: Driving change through impact investing
Read this publication: Evolving your endowment: Driving change through impact investingOur guide “Evolving your endowment: Driving change through impact investing” provides practical information and resources for charitable foundations that want to invest the assets within their main endowment to deliver both positive social and environmental impact.
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Family Offices: A roadmap to impact
Read this publication: Family Offices: A roadmap to impactOur guide “Family Offices: A roadmap to impact” provides practical information and resources for families and their advisors to navigate the world of impact investing.
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Bridging divides: A guide on using catalytic capital for a global just transition
Read this publication: Bridging divides: A guide on using catalytic capital for a global just transitionOur catalytic capital guide provides a roadmap for achieving a fair and inclusive transition – a just transition – to net zero in emerging and frontier markets, with a focus on the use of catalytic capital.
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Fostering impact: An investor guide for engaging communities in place-based impact investing
Read this publication: Fostering impact: An investor guide for engaging communities in place-based impact investingThe 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
Read this publication: Just Transition Criteria – a practical tool for fund managersThe 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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Impact investing presentation for charitable foundations
Read this publication: Impact investing presentation for charitable foundationsA 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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New research shines a light on existing social sustainability metrics that can spearhead further policy and industry action
Read this publication: New research shines a light on existing social sustainability metrics that can spearhead further policy and industry actionSustainability reporting, particularly on social outcomes, remains patchy and inconsistent across industries. However, our new research shows that there is a raft of existing legislation, voluntary codes, and market-led initiatives by which businesses and investors are already capturing and disclosing factors relating to people and communities.
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Just Transition finance
Read this publication: Just Transition financeReducing and absorbing carbon emissions at the speed and scale needed to safeguard our planet requires vast amounts of capital. At the same time a global consensus is emerging that to be sustained and successful, this transition needs to be socially inclusive. Capital will need to be invested in ways that support a Just Transition…
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Our Impact Report January 2021 – June 22
Read this publication: Our Impact Report January 2021 – June 22At the Impact Investing Institute, we aim to transform capital markets to make them fairer and work better for people and the planet. In this, our second impact report, we reflect on the achievements we have made so far and look ahead, outlining our priorities for the future.
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Bridging capital into communities: A practical guide for policy makers
Read this publication: Bridging capital into communities: A practical guide for policy makersIn 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). The report also looks at the use of these tools internationally, where they have the potential to grow the social impact…
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Estimating and describing the UK impact investing market
Read this publication: Estimating and describing the UK impact investing marketMeasuring the growing impact market’s scale potential and who is investing.
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Financing structures for place-based impact investing – what works?
Read this publication: 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. Our new report tackles this barrier head on, setting out the key characteristics viable vehicles must possess, a variety…
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Originating place-based impact investments
Read this publication: Originating place-based impact investmentsThe 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. This report tests the hypothesis that this issue can be addressed through a ‘platform’ solution. It explores existing kinds of origination platforms and…
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Investing with impact in the endowment
Read this publication: Investing with impact in the endowmentOur 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. With support from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Esmée Fairbairn…
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Can Charities Invest their Endowment with impact?
Read this publication: 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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Mobilising institutional capital towards the SDGs and a Just Transition
Read this publication: Mobilising institutional capital towards the SDGs and a Just TransitionIn partnership with the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG), we co-led the G7 Impact Taskforce, an independent, industry-led effort backed by the UK Government as part of the UK presidency of the G7 in 2021. Workstream B, the Workstream led by the Impact Investing Institute, had a particular focus on identifying concrete instruments and policies for financing the Sustainable…
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Building Strong Places: a new, impactful role for financial institutions
Read this publication: Building Strong Places: a new, impactful role for financial institutionsOur 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. The report recognises the urgent need for transformational investment that improves people’s lives while futureproofing the UK economy, particularly given the importance of…
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Knowledge Exchange Series: Insights from global impact investing market-builders
Read this publication: Knowledge Exchange Series: Insights from global impact investing market-buildersThis document presents a summary of the key insights gathered in each session of our Knowledge Exchange Series from market-builders operating in a variety of national contexts, as well as leading practitioners and thought leaders who were invited as guest speakers in different sessions. These insights provide an accurate reflection of the challenges, opportunities, solutions…
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Knowledge Exchange Series No.7: How DFIs and NABs can partner to move more capital for impact in local markets
Read this publication: Knowledge Exchange Series No.7: How DFIs and NABs can partner to move more capital for impact in local marketsThe seventh session of the Knowledge Exchange Series explored how impact investing National Advisory Boards (NABs) and other market-building organisations can effectively partner with development finance institutions (DFIs) to leverage sources of finance, expertise and solutions to support economic development and quality of life in their respective markets.
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Knowledge Exchange Series No.6: Working with Government to shape transformative policy for impact investing
Read this publication: Knowledge Exchange Series No.6: Working with Government to shape transformative policy for impact investingThe sixth session of the Knowledge Exchange Series explored how impact investing National Advisory Boards (NABs) and other market-builders can use their platforms to work with governments and create an enabling environment for impact investing, to help unleash finance, innovation, and entrepreneurship to solve pressing issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate emergency.
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The Green+ Bond: How EU Sovereign and Corporate Issuers could deliver Green Sovereign Bonds with Social Co-Benefits
Read this publication: The Green+ Bond: How EU Sovereign and Corporate Issuers could deliver Green Sovereign Bonds with Social Co-BenefitsOur paper, “The Green+ Bond: How EU Sovereign and Corporate Issuers could deliver Green Sovereign Bonds with Social Co-Benefits”, co-authored with the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute, emphasises the strategic potential for a green sovereign bond with well-defined social and economic benefits to support the European Commission’s new Strategy for “financing the transition to a sustainable economy.”
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Is there an investment case for social and affordable housing in the UK?
Read this publication: Is there an investment case for social and affordable housing in the UK?In partnership with Property Funds Research and supported by Homes England and Investment Property Forum, we have published a ground-breaking and comprehensive report detailing the investment case for UK social housing.
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The UK’s Green Gilt: Demonstrating the Contribution to Jobs and Levelling Up
Read this publication: The UK’s Green Gilt: Demonstrating the Contribution to Jobs and Levelling UpA working paper on the UK’s Green Gilt: Demonstrating the Contribution to Jobs and Levelling Up, co-authored with the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute.
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