- Report by J.P. Morgan and the Rockefeller Foundation assesses expected and realized returns from more than 1,000 impact investments collected by the Global Impact Investing Network
- Report estimates an investment opportunity of between $400 billion and $1 trillion and profit opportunity of between $183 billion and $667 billion over the next decade in five sectors — housing, water, health, education, and financial services — serving global populations earning less than $3,000 annually
Impact investments — investments intended to create positive social or environmental impact beyond financial return — constitute a new asset class, according to a report by J.P. Morgan and the Rockefeller Foundation. The new collaborative research piece, "Impact Investments: An Emerging Asset Class," explores how impact investments offer a new alternative for channeling large-scale private capital for social benefit. The report also includes the first large-scale data analysis of return expectations and, when available, realized returns for impact investments.
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This report was prepared in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Impact Investing Network.
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation fosters innovative solutions to many of the world's most pressing challenges, affirming its mission, since 1913, to "promote the well-being" of humanity. Today, the Foundation works to ensure that more people can tap into the benefits of globalization while strengthening resilience to its risks. Foundation initiatives include efforts to mobilize an agricultural revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa, bolster economic security for American workers, inform equitable, sustainable transportation policies in the United States, ensure access to affordable and high-quality health systems in developing countries, accelerate the impact investing industry's evolution, and develop strategies and services that help vulnerable communities cope with the impacts of climate change.
Global Impact Investing Network
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. The GIIN builds critical infrastructure and supports activities, education, and research that help accelerate the development of a coherent impact investing industry. This work is informed by the GIIN Investors' Council, a diverse membership group comprised of leading impact investors. To serve the needs of the greater impact investing community, the GIIN is also overseeing the development of IRIS, a common vocabulary and framework for measuring and reporting the social and environmental performance of impact investments, and is launching ImpactBase, a database of impact investment funds designed to reduce search and transaction costs across the impact investing industry.
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