Help us estimate the UK impact investing market We are looking for a research partner to help us deliver our second market sizing exercise for the UK impact investment market, commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). We would like to partner with researchers who can refine and expand our current market sizing model, building on our first market report published in March 2022. The project will kick off in July 2023 with publication and launch planned in June 2024. We are accepting proposals until midday on the 8th May 2023. Please see below for more details. You can c ..read more

Kieron Boyle to join from Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation to lead the Institute’s efforts to champion impact investing London, Thursday 2 March – The Impact Investing Institute (“the Institute”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kieron Boyle as Chief Executive Officer. Kieron’s appointment follows an extensive selection process that attracted significant interest among applicants, a testament to the Institute’s strong reputation as an advocate for impact investing in the UK and internationally, which was built over the last three years. Kieron ..read more

Proposals due:  26th March 2023 Project delivery: May 2023 – September 2023 Background The Just Transition Finance Challenge is a flagship initiative to mobilise more public and private capital into investments that support a Just Transition to Net Zero in the UK and globally. The Challenge brings together 20 leading global financial institutions who jointly control over £4 trillion in assets and are committed to financing a Just Transition. As part of the Challenge, we are launching a project to support the financing of a just transition in the Global South, with funding from the Catalyt ..read more

As part of the Institute’s Just Transition Finance Challenge and together with the Challenge’s 20 Founding Participants, Deloitte and our Knowledge Partner, the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute, the Institute has developed Just Transition Criteria for financing vehicles that can deliver a transition to a net zero carbon world that is inclusive and beneficial to society.    We are looking for your feedback We are now welcoming feedback on those criteria as part of a public consultation process.     The Just Transition Criteria aim to help investors develop ..read more

In January, the Impact Investing Institute, with generous support from our partner the London-based law firm Reed Smith, hosted its first Impact Futures breakfast roundtable in the City of London. Gathered around the table were asset managers, asset owners, and investment consultants – there to explore and overcome the barriers to impact investing that exist within the pension sector. Leading the conversation were Jamie Broderick, Deputy Chair of the Board and Lead Expert at the Institute and Chris Hitchen who has 35 years of experience working with pensions. Chris is currently Chair of the in ..read more

We are pleased and grateful to receive support from Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) for our work on a Just Transition. As part of our Just Transition Finance Challenge we will work on increasing the capacity of catalytic capital providers and local managers in the Global South to develop and launch financial products that can attract institutional capital for a Just Transition at scale. Thank you to the Catalytic Capital Consortium team, we are looking forward to working with you. Read the press release here for more information on the C3 awards. The post We are ..read more

Our place programme champions investment that helps to deliver positive change in underinvested places around the UK. Our Senior Programme Manager, Shadi Brazell, talks in this brief audio clip about why she is so obsessed with places and the power of money to improve people’s lives.  The Institute’s place-based impact investing programme has four key areas:   Investor engagement We are ramping up communications with institutional investors to raise awareness of the opportunities presented by a place-based impact investing approach. In doing so, we hope to encourage more pr ..read more

The Q&A below, with our Programme Manager for International Development David Krivanek, was first published as a Pioneers Post’s article on 27th September 2022. What does ‘Just Transition’ mean?  David Krivanek: The concept of a Just Transition refers to a transition to a world of net zero carbon that is inclusive and beneficial to society. We believe there are three critical drivers of a just transition to a sustainable and inclusive world for all: advancing climate and environmental action (for example, greenhouse gas emission mitigation, reduction and removal),  ..read more

In the second instalment of our In Conversation series, Dame Elizabeth Corley, our Chair, spoke to Kieron Boyle, CEO of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation about impact investing for endowments and St Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation’s journey from small beginnings to the biggest impact allocation ever made by a UK foundation. In the UK, the largest 300 endowed charitable foundations have over £72 billion in total assets. Yet, despite the field of impact investing originating from within the foundation community, the vast majority of these assets are invested in mainstream capital markets without c ..read more

So far, this year’s COP27 tells a familiar story: not enough progress since last year’s gathering in Glasgow; too many pledges, and not nearly enough action; and far too little capital, both public and private, mobilised to address the climate emergency, particularly in the Global South. African leaders voice their frustration African leaders, like Macky Sall, president of Senegal and chair of the African Union, openly shared their frustration earlier this week. Sall said it was time for the rich nations that bear disproportionate responsibility for the climate crisis, not just to meet their p ..read more