Father of impact investing
The world wants to support investment that achieves a positive impact. We're at the critical historic juncture where we all have to push together to achieve this impact transparency. Join Sir Ronald Cohen as he explains what Impact investment is and the key reasons why the world is moving in the direction of assessing impact.
The world wants to support investment that achieves a positive impact. We're at the critical historic juncture where we all have to push together to achieve this impact transparency. Join Sir Ronald Cohen as he explains what Impact investment is and the key reasons why the world is moving in the direction of assessing impact.
The world has been moving in the direction of investment that achieves a positive impact. We're at the critical historic juncture where we all have to push together to achieve this impact transparency. Governments must impose regulations mandating companies to provide information, consumers should switch their consumption away from companies doing harm, and investors have a voice too.
Key learning objectives:
Explain the roles different parties play in bringing about positive impacts
Understand the similarities between technology and impact
Identify key reasons why we are moving towards assessing impact
Define impact investing
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Impact is the positive effect that we're having on people and the planet through our investments and through our decisions as members of the teams or leaders of businesses.
The values of consumers and of talent have been changing.
1. Environmental damage
2. Employment impact (measuring diversity, differences in advancement of ethnic and gender groups, differences in pay)
3. Product impacts (impacts on health and the environment)
If we want to have comparable information about the different impacts of companies, then we need governments mandating it. The Biden administration, the EU and national governments will now hopefully begin to require companies to publish impact weighted accounts.
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