Impact Management
Impact Management | March 12, 2024
A case study in private equity’s role in realizing impact
Essential insights: The core of the debate Recent discussions have raised critical questions about the role of private equity in fostering resilient, inclusive …
Impact Investing | March 12, 2024
ImpactAssets 50: Fund managers are raising the bar by tying compensation to impact
ImpactAlpha, March 1 – A focus on climate and impact-linked compensation are among the trends in this year’s ImpactAssets 50 list. Some 155 …
Impact Voices | February 29, 2024
How three investors are measuring their impact on climate resilience
2023 closed with a flurry of new climate finance commitments announced at COP28. These commitments–notably including $30 billion from the UAE and $12.8 …
Optimizing for Impact | February 7, 2024
After the investment and before the exit, how fund managers drive alpha through impact
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 7 – Impact first, last – and in between. Private fund investments tend to attract the most attention – including in …
Climate + Gender | January 30, 2024
Six questions to level up your climate + gender strategies
A growing number of climate investors are recognizing that applying a gender lens can deepen their climate impact – and accelerate a just …
Impact Management | January 25, 2024
Disrupting Dysfunction: Working from inside and outside to drive systems change
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 25 – Systems change is a contact sport for grownups, says Gillian Marcelle. “There will be betrayal. There will be sabotage. There …
Dealflow | January 25, 2024
Temasek’s ABC Impact rakes in $550 million for its second private equity fund
ImpactAlpha, January 25 — ABC Impact, the independently managed private equity impact investment firm owned by Temasek was launched in 2019 to take …
Call Recording | January 19, 2024
The Call: Moving from the ‘why’ to the ‘how’ of impact incentives
ImpactAlpha, January 19 – Impact investors have for years debated the need for embedded structures to incentivize impact outcomes for impact fund managers. …
Features | January 16, 2024
From funds to managers to enterprises, some investors are aligning incentives for impact
ImpactAlpha, January 16 – Nearly all of the actual impact in impact investments comes from the ground up. If it makes sense to …
Impact Management | January 16, 2024
Innovating to future-proof private equity for impact
When starting in impact investing or private equity, did you ever wonder where commonly accepted fund terms come from? Why are almost all …
Impact Management | January 11, 2024
Navigating the metrics and management of impact incentives
This is the second article for ImpactAlpha about the Impact Linked Compensation Project, a research initiative exploring impact-linked compensation mechanisms, metrics and governance. …
Impact Management | January 11, 2024
Setting the right governance approach to impact incentives
This is the first article for ImpactAlpha about the Impact Linked Compensation Project, a research initiative exploring impact-linked compensation mechanisms, metrics and governance. …
Good Jobs | January 9, 2024
Blackstone, KKR and Bain seek to create value with quality jobs
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 9 – Tired: Cost cutting and financial engineering. Wired: Investments in workers as assets. The private equity industry owns firms that …
Impact Management | January 4, 2024
More impact fund managers tie their compensation to impact along with financial performance
This is the first article for ImpactAlpha about the Impact Linked Compensation Project, a research initiative exploring impact-linked compensation mechanisms, yardsticks and governance. …
Looking Ahead to 2024 | December 20, 2023
At Stake in 2024: Impact as a driver of alpha in public and private markets
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 20 – The push: Limited partners and regulators are demanding more rigorous impact reporting. The pull: Fund managers are finding alpha in …
Impact Voices | December 14, 2023
Seven ways to maximize the potential of health investments through better impact measurement
Investors bring diverse approaches towards defining, measuring and managing the impact of their investments in health. But how can that be done in …
Impact Voices | December 14, 2023
Why this Latin American venture fund is listening to customers to drive impact and returns
How common is deep impact measurement for an impact investing fund? In practice, most funds focus primarily on measuring outputs, such as the …
Impact Voices | December 14, 2023
How investors are moving from “alignment” to “contribution” to the UN Global Goals
From the time that the UN Sustainable Development Goals were adopted in 2015, private finance was seen as a key component of financing …
Dealflow | December 12, 2023
Sir Ronald Cohen’s Apax Partners closes $900 million global impact fund
ImpactAlpha, December 12 — Born in Egypt to a Jewish family that emigrated to the UK, Sir Ronald Cohen in 1972 launched Apax …
Muni Impact | December 11, 2023
Muni investors see through mispriced risks to find alpha and impact
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 11 – Lower risk: Bonds issued by high-performing school districts that serve low-income populations. Higher risk: Issuances that fund entertainment complexes that …
Impact Management | December 6, 2023
How institutional investors can up their sustainability game in private markets
Institutional investors – aka, limited partners, or LPs – are increasingly integrating sustainability into their investment processes for private markets. That requires managing …
Impact Management | November 30, 2023
Equipping private equity managers to unlock value through sustainability
The private equity industry, known for its focus on efficiency improvements and earnings growth, has expanded dramatically in the past decade, tripling assets …
Climate Finance | November 30, 2023
How much science is there behind the Science Based Targets Initiative?
There is an urgent race to curb rising temperatures and prevent the worst effects of climate change. This is reflected in a growing …
Impact Management | November 21, 2023
Private equity is leaving billions of dollars in sustainability value on the table
Private equity has a significant opportunity to create financial and societal value through sustainability. PE firms that invest in improving the management and …
Impact Investing | November 16, 2023
JFF Ventures aligns venture capital with a national nonprofit to invest in the future of work
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 16 – Creating the tools and technologies to move more than 100 million low-income Americans comfortably into the middle class with …
Dealflow | November 3, 2023
Deal spotlight: Acumen breaks the ice on failures in impact investing
ImpactAlpha, November 3 – Impact investors deserve credit for pushing business and finance to be more mindful, accountable and transparent. Acumen this week …
Impact Management | November 2, 2023
In impact investing, failure is good – if we learn and share the lessons
In the US, venture backed investments are failing at rates not seen since the Great Recession. The market forces slamming these companies are …
Corporate Impact | October 25, 2023
Investors push corporations to better manage increasingly scarce water resources
ImpactAlpha, October 25 – Corporations are the largest consumers of water globally, which sets them up for conflict and risk as water scarcity …
Impact Investing | October 4, 2023
Using integrated analysis to inform impact investing decisions
Over the past weeks, ImpactAlpha offered a sampling of video highlights from the new open-access course from Impact Frontiers and Impact Capital Managers, …
Impact Management | September 21, 2023
Messiness, Mutuality and Methodology: Three tips for measuring impact
Note: This is an abridged version for ImpactAlpha. For all 10 tips, please visit this article on Medium.com. At the end of 2022, …
Impact Management | September 20, 2023
The $100 billion opportunity in climate-finance accountability
ImpactAlpha, September 20 – Developed nations have pledged (but not delivered) $100 billion annually to help low and middle-income countries adapt to climate …
Impact Investing | September 11, 2023
How some US companies are preparing for mandatory impact reporting (Q&A)
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 11 – Markets around the globe are likely to require corporations to report on their social and environmental impact before the end …
Impact Management | August 31, 2023
Is Europe’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation delivering on its promise?
The European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, known as SFDR, is making waves in the investment industry. The legislative measure, introduced in 2019, …
Impact Management | August 14, 2023
Getting started with impact ratings
Impact for Decision-Making, Part 2 In part 1 of Impact for Decision-Making, Impact Frontiers and Impact Capital Managers made the case for “impact-financial …
Good Jobs | July 27, 2023
In a strong labor market, investors look for companies to outcompete through ‘quality jobs’
ImpactAlpha, Jul. 27 – The Great Resignation turned out to be instead The Great Reshuffling. And as workers reshuffled back, they looked for a …
Impact Management | July 27, 2023
How three impact investors engage their most important stakeholders to validate impact
An increasingly important question for impact investors is how to validate that their investments are having the intended impact on people or the …
Impact Management | July 26, 2023
‘A’ for Effort: Private equity giants Bain, Apollo, TPG and KKR grade their own impact initiatives
ImpactAlpha, July 26 – A billion-dollar impact fund used to be an industry milestone. Now $1 billion is table stakes for legacy private equity …
Impact Investing | July 26, 2023
Impact for decision-making, Part 1
New to impact investing? Or just want to improve your game? We’ve got you covered. Over the next few weeks, ImpactAlpha will offer …
Corporate Impact | July 17, 2023
Flex of worker power raises the stakes for quality jobs
Investors focused on societal impact are often concerned with corporate treatment of workers. To assess job quality performance across a portfolio, they generally …
Dealflow | June 12, 2023
Generation clinches $1.5 billion for climate fund with impact incentives
ImpactAlpha, June 12 – Just Climate, the climate-dedicated asset manager launched a year and a half ago by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management, …
Corporate Impact | June 1, 2023
Impact reports from Tesla, Warby Parker and others tout climate and community solutions
Tired: ESG risk reporting. Wired: Reports on company impact. Almost nine in 10 companies in the S&P 500 now regularly issue some sort …
Impact Management | May 24, 2023
Tipping Point Fund backs field-building efforts of GIIN, The ImPact and ShareAction
ImpactAlpha, May 24 – Impact investing collaborative Tipping Point Fund has provided grants to five organizations in support of new field-building initiatives, including …
Impact Management | May 23, 2023
UN metrics measure enterprise impact on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
Time is running out to meet the ambitious UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set for 2030. There are real concerns that data related …
Impact Management | May 17, 2023
10 fund managers that are outperforming – in managing impact
ImpactAlpha, May 16 – Some fund managers link staff incentives to impact results. Others verify outcomes with target stakeholders. Many regularly assess impact risk. …
Impact Voices | May 17, 2023
Why don’t more impact fund managers tie compensation to impact? Let’s find out.
Impact investing has now reached more than $1 trillion in assets under management. With this growth, concerns over “impact washing” have also grown. …