Impact Investing Market Growing, Diversifying, Survey Finds
The global impact investing market is growing and becoming more diverse, with both impact and financial returns in line with investors' expectations, a report from the Global Impact Investing Network finds
22 June 2018
Based on responses from two hundred and twenty-nine impact investors with assets under management of more than $228 billion, the eighth edition of GIIN’s Annual Impact Investor Survey (76 pages, PDF) found that the top sectors for impact investments by capital allocation were financial services (19 percent of assets under management), energy (14 percent), and microfinance (9 percent), while food and agriculture was the most popular, with 57 percent of respondents collectively allocating 6 percent of their assets to that sector. Survey respondents also said they expected to increase the number of investments and the amount of capital invested by 5 percent and 8 percent, respectively, in 2018.