Impact measurement

Global wealth management platform FNZ has announced it has made an strategic investment in impact data and analytics provider GIST, as part of a wider partnership between the two firms

Being an impact-driven organisation linked to a corporation can be challenging. A new report and risk assessment tool launched by EVPA aim to help social corporate investors assess and safeguard their impact integrity

A study by Esade’s Center for Social Impact sheds a light on the issue of transparency and best practices in impact management and measurement (IMM) governance, guiding impact funds towards the adoption of structures that suit their individual needs

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has launched a beta version of its first impact performance benchmark. It will allow investors to assess and compare sector-specific impact performance to peers and to SDGs, and to make investment choices to maximise impact

A study by Esade Center for Social Impact and banking foundation BBK finds that impact measurement and management is starting to take a central place in the daily life of Europe’s foundations

Investors can play a key role in funding solutions to water problems but a lack of global standards to measure water impact remains a barrier. Water did not get enough attention at the climate change conference in Glasgow, experts argue. The way that climate change affects human beings is almost entirely through water – either […]

Accounting for impact is notoriously difficult. Methodologies vary from one investor to the next. Impact investing, however, can only scale if they adopt harmonised standards. In a short series, we look at progress made in different sectors.

Companies are all expressing promising impact statements nowadays. But how do you make sure these promises are kept?

Sama, a San Francisco-based data-training company, decided a few years ago that it was time to run its impact numbers through an independent randomly controlled trial. The risk paid off.

The &Green Fund is striving for deforestation-free supply chains of the biggest agricultural commodities. Transforming entire supply chains is admittedly very complex. This begs the question: how?