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Dear all,
As we enter the final weeks of a profoundly difficult year, I want to begin with my most important message: I hope you and your loved ones are staying healthy and safe. I hope you are taking good care of yourself and those you love.
The pandemic and its associated challenges have changed the way many people see the world and their place in it. Among those lasting changes, I believe this challenging time has opened the eyes of many to the central role that capital markets must play in building a more inclusive, more sustainable future.
Working together, we have achieved important progress toward that vision in 2020. Our network has supported product structure workshops addressing capital gaps related to the SDGs and COVID-19. We have developed critical impact measurement and management resources, such as new themes in IRIS+. We have pushed the frontiers of impact performance through a new analytic methodology. And we have established a first-of-its-kind initiative through the Response, Recovery, and Resilience Investment Coalition, engaging partners all around the world to address the large-scale social and economic consequences of COVID-19.
These are just a few examples of the ways our collective efforts have been a vessel for the highest ambitions of the entire market. This work illustrates how much more we can achieve together than we would ever accomplish alone, especially during difficult times.
As the world begins focusing on recovery in 2021 and beyond, impact investors will play a critical leadership role in shaping the more inclusive, more sustainable future that must come next. Alongside all of you, I look forward to continuing to show the world how money can do so much more than just make more money.
Happy holidays and take good care!
Amit Bouri
Co-Founder & CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network
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Invitation for Feedback: New Analytic Methodology for Comparing Impact Performance
As part of the effort to help advance industry understanding of impact performance, the GIIN recently released the Methodology for Standardizing and Comparing Impact Performance, which closely follows the publication of new installments in our Understanding Impact Performance series. The methodology discussion paper contains a first-of-its-kind analytic methodology for analyzing market-, portfolio-, and investment-level impact performance. The GIIN believes this methodology marks a critical step in helping investors gauge how investments compare to each other and how they move the needle on our biggest global challenges. In the longer-term, the new methodology and research reports lay the foundation for impact benchmarks, ratings, and other tools for analyzing and managing impact performance.
That said, maximizing impact requires a full industry effort! So, the GIIN is now asking for feedback on this methodology as part of a broader strategy to overcome the complex challenge of understanding impact performance. Following the public comment period, the methodology will be updated and released as a standard.
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GIIN Announces New Virtual Convenings in 2021
The world is changing very quickly, and at present, there are many unknowns about 2021 and beyond.
In order to remain responsive and helpful to the evolving market during the year ahead, we will host several virtual convenings of the GIIN's broader global network - tackling issues of the moment, but most importantly, looking several years ahead for new opportunities. They will provide inspiring, insightful, and practical information about how investors can adapt to be better prepared to deploy capital effectively toward a more inclusive and sustainable recovery and future.
This series of short virtual convenings will replace the GIIN Investor Forum in 2021 and will ultimately help to inform the content of the 2022 GIIN Investor Forum, scheduled for 10-14 October 2022 in The Hague. As in previous years, the 2022 GIIN Investor Forum will offer networking, an exhibit hall, keynote speakers, working groups, break-out sessions, and the timely and high-quality content investors have come to expect from the GIIN.
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New Impact Measurement and Management Themes Open for Public Comment
The new Climate Change Mitigation, Quality Jobs, and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) themes are now open for public comment ahead of being published on IRIS+, which is the generally accepted system for measuring, managing, and optimizing impact. Leveraging insights from expert partners and input from 500+ organizations, each theme is developed to be helpful for investors in defining their goals, knowing what evidence supports their approaches, and selecting the metrics to measure against. In order to ensure the themes are useful to practitioners, these drafts are opened for public comment to gain crucial industry feedback before they are finalized and launched on IRIS+.
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GIIN Member Highlight: Finance in Motion Tackles Global Challenges through Blended Finance
As a new feature in the GIIN newsletter, we will be sharing the work of GIIN members and how they are contributing to the growth of the industry.
Finance in Motion is an impact asset manager focused on structuring, advising, and managing private debt and private equity funds to generate positive change in low and middle-income countries in Latin America, Southeast Europe, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and North Africa. To date, Finance in Motion has deployed over EUR 5 billion through 8 blended finance impact funds.
Finance in Motion joined GIIN Membership in 2015 and became a part of the GIIN's Investors' Council in 2017. Drawing on their expertise with blended finance structures, Finance in Motion is active across a variety of GIIN initiatives. Most recently, they submitted data to the 2020 Annual Impact Investor Survey, provided critical input for the Climate Change Mitigation theme launching in IRIS+, and participated in the product structure workshops on gender lens investing. Additionally, Finance in Motion has played a key role in the Blended Finance Working Group, where their expertise has lent itself towards important industry collaboration and development.
"As a pioneering impact asset manager, Finance in Motion sees particular value in close exchange with like-minded impact investors through such groups as the GIIN Investors' Council and Blended Finance Working Group," says Managing Director Sylvia Wisniwski. "They offer an excellent platform for sharing and learning from industry best practices; but what is more, such collaboration is particularly crucial for developing industry standards and innovating new instruments that can be replicated by other players. This is how we can, together, scale the impact investing market with integrity."
Finance in Motion's specialization in managing multi-tier investment funds through public and private partnerships underscores their commitment to creating positive social and environmental results alongside economic returns and mobilizing private capital towards the SDGs. The firm's thematic areas include addressing climate change, strengthening biodiversity conservation, fostering the sustainable use of natural resources, and improving livelihoods and promoting economic opportunities.
Learn about GIIN Membership
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View new job opportunities in the GIIN Career Center
The GIIN is looking to expand its highly passionate and ambitious team and is currently recruiting a new Market Building Manager. Check out these roles and other opportunities to join the GIIN and other organizations in the impact investing industry.
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Visit the events and news page on the GIIN website to see recent coverage of impact investing in the news. Some recent highlights include:
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GREENMONEY
Faithful Finance: Strategies for Connecting Values and Capital to Generate Real-World Impact
GOOD FUTURE PODCAST
Amit Bouri: Founding the GIIN, embracing risk, and activating impact investors in a crisis
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