What is the Global Impact Investing Network?

The Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN) is an international network comprising 175 different impact investing organizations. Institutional asset owners, pension funds, insurance providers, asset managers, intermediaries, and consultants are some of its members. Overall, these institutions use a range of impact and investment approaches to target investments across various industries, stages, and locations.

The overall goal of GIIN is to broaden the scope and efficiency of impact investing by: (a) enabling a plausible and long-lasting practice of impact assessment; (b) creating awareness of impact investing; and (c) facilitating greater and more efficient capital rollout to address urgent social and environmental needs. The proposed funding will help GIIN carry out its primary research and impact evaluation by offering general operating support for two years.

The GIIN aims to accelerate the industry growth through targeted leadership and teamwork by bringing together impact investors to foster knowledge sharing, promoting innovative investing strategies, developing the industry's evidence basis, and creating useful tools and resources.

In the end, the GIIN focuses on lowering impact investing obstacles so that more investors may devote capital to finance solutions to the world's most difficult problems. The group achieves this by creating vital infrastructure and launching initiatives, programs, and studies that hasten the growth of a well-organized impact investing sector.

For investors, the GIIN's activities now focuses on the following areas:

·        GIIN Membership: Investors' Council and Members

·        Strategic Alliances: According to the GIIN, increased cooperation between top industry players is necessary for impact investment to realize its full potential.

“Our vision is of a world where financial markets serve all members of society and where finance plays a central role in solving the social and environmental challenges facing the global community. In this future, investors integrate impact considerations into all decisions, building strong communities, a healthy environment, and a sustainable future for all people. We believe impact investing can lead the way to this future.”

Over 88 percent of impact investors indicated that their investments met or surpassed their expectations, according to the Global Impact Investing Network.

According to studies, the average return for impact funds was 6.4 percent vs 7.4 percent for non-impact funds.

What is Impact Investing?

A general investment technique known as "impact investing" aims to provide financial gains while simultaneously having a good social or environmental impact.

The goal of impact investing is to produce specific positive social or environmental consequences alongside financial gains. Impact investments can come in many different asset class forms and have a variety of different consequences. Impact investing's goal is to employ financial resources and capital for socially beneficial outcomes.

Impact investors take into account a company's dedication to corporate social responsibility, or the obligation to benefit society as a whole.