SFI Roundup: Investing for Impact

Impact Investing—Cure or Hype?

Impact investing has moved from niche to mainstream in the last few years. Impact is now, alongside risk and return, one of the key characteristics of financial investments in today's world. Impact investing is the act of making a financial investment that both earns a financial return and achieves a positive impact. But knowing the best way to measure impact, whether impact-based strategies outperform or underperform the market, and who, among businesses, governments, and households, is best able to make a difference, remain open-ended questions. While clear-cut answers to how best to achieve a positive impact are unlikely, the challenges we face are sufficiently large that all actors must try to make the world a better place. We, as individuals, can start by educating ourselves, and by voting and consuming differently.

The most recent SFI Roundup offers practical and research insights into this topic from Guido Bolliger, CEO and CIO at Asteria Investment Managers; SFI Prof. Laurent Frésard, USI; SFI Prof. Julian Kölbel, UNISG; SFI Prof. Philipp Krüger, UNIGE; Norbert Rücker, Head of Economics and Next Generation Research at Julius Bär; and Rosa Sangiorgio, Head of Responsible Investing at Pictet Wealth Management.

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