The growth of impact investing and the role of boards
The market for impact investing is now worth around $1.3trn. It is an opportunity for boards to steer their companies towards work that returns social or environmental benefits.
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According to data from Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), more than 450 investors allocated US$1.3trn to impact investments worldwide in 2016, and the increasing demand for impact investing products and services has opened a new commercial avenue for asset managers, fund managers and service providers interested in this growing market.
Part of this growth is driven by the changing profile of wealth distribution. Globally, we’ve started seeing a huge transfer of wealth to women and millennials. According to the Boston Consulting Group, women are likely to hold $72trn of private wealth by 2020; that’s about a third of the globa
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