With more investors focused on impact, the total value of impact investments has surpassed $1.5 trillion globally, says the Global Impact Investing Network.
Key challenges to scaling the impact investing field? Perceptions of risk, lack of measurement metrics, and integrating impact strategies into mainstream investing, as the FT’s Sarah Murray reports in this piece. Also: a focus on short-term gains over long-term value. Real progress, as Blue Haven’s Liesel Pritzker Simmons notes, can’t be made through the voluntary efforts of the private sector. “For a very long time businesses have not had to pay for the messes they make,” she says.