As global aid budgets shrink, the role of impact investors has never been more critical. In a new Financial Times Moral Money article, Our CEO Margret Trilli shares how the impact investing community is rising to meet the challenge. “I think everybody felt it in a really visceral way when USAID was impacted,” Margret told the FT. “Unanimously, everybody is having the same discussion, which is: how do we step up in this moment?” With $1.5T now managed in social and environmental impact funds – and growing – investors are mobilizing to fill gaps. As Margret highlights, wealthy individuals and family offices, in particular, are increasingly shifting capital toward solutions that drive meaningful impact alongside financial return. Read more in the FT (subscription required): https://lnkd.in/gvjRuvPB #ImpactInvesting #SustainableFinance #PrivateCapital
Little noticed last week, amid the turmoil of Trump’s second month in office, was the US repudiation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.?“Put simply, globalist endeavours like?.?.?.?the SDGs lost at the ballot box,” US representative Edward Heartney told the UN General Assembly, adding that Washington now “rejects and denounces” the initiative. But as the US government turns away from the sustainable development agenda, funds promoting it now account for a significant slice of the global investment sector. Funds pursuing social and environmental impact have grown their assets under management at an annual rate of 21 per cent over the past five years, and now manage more than $1.5tn, according to the The Global Impact Investing Network. Can they soften the blow to international development, as the US and European nations slash their foreign aid budgets? That's the focus of today's FT Moral Money newsletter, featuring insights from some of the world's leading impact investors. Many thanks to Andrew Kuper at LeapFrog Investments; Margret Trilli at ImpactAssets; Stephanie Bilo at responsAbility Investments AG; vineet rai at Aavishkaar Capital; Jacqueline Novogratz at Acumen; 'Tokunboh Ishmael, CFA at Alitheia Capital; John Fischer at Accion for making time to speak. https://lnkd.in/egZh3gZ9