Shift to impact investing for real change and returns

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IT is becoming a common theme among the region’s family offices and institutional investors to include sustainable investing, an investing style which focuses on environmental, social and corporate governance, or ESG for short. Read more at The Business Times.

This definition arguably makes investment considerations deeper and places a measurable outcome on impact as part of the expected returns that investors want to have. But how do we encourage investment managers to shift their mandate from ESG-selection to including and measuring impact goals? To start expecting investment managers to use impact accounting frameworks would be onerous and overwhelming at first sight. There will also be significant compliance and added costs.

To find a balance, TRIVE went through a journey of discovery to balance the work on impact outcomes. Through our research, we discovered the Impact Management Project framework, a simplified framework that eases the evaluation yet is able to measure impact goals. A further set of questions are asked to probe on the contributions that a startup’s product or service bring to the beneficiaries. The answer to each question will be ranked respectively on an assessment scale. A final grade will be made to decide whether the startup’s product will be measured in an ordinal scale as to whether it avoids harm, benefits people or contributes to solutions.

 

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