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Why Impact?

Why Impact?

Sir Ronald Cohen

Father of impact investing

The world wants to support investment that achieves a positive impact. We're at the critical historic juncture where we all have to push together to achieve this impact transparency. Join Sir Ronald Cohen as he explains what Impact investment is and the key reasons why the world is moving in the direction of assessing impact.

The world wants to support investment that achieves a positive impact. We're at the critical historic juncture where we all have to push together to achieve this impact transparency. Join Sir Ronald Cohen as he explains what Impact investment is and the key reasons why the world is moving in the direction of assessing impact.

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Why Impact?

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Overview

The world has been moving in the direction of investment that achieves a positive impact. We're at the critical historic juncture where we all have to push together to achieve this impact transparency. Governments must impose regulations mandating companies to provide information, consumers should switch their consumption away from companies doing harm, and investors have a voice too.

Key learning objectives:

  • Explain the roles different parties play in bringing about positive impacts

  • Understand the similarities between technology and impact

  • Identify key reasons why we are moving towards assessing impact

  • Define impact investing

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Summary

What is impact?

Impact is the positive effect that we're having on people and the planet through our investments and through our decisions as members of the teams or leaders of businesses.

What is ESG and impact investment?

  • ESg investment is an investment that seeks to achieve impact as well as profit, but doesn't measure it. ESG investment as of 2013 counted about $10 trillion USD. Today it is over $40 trillion USD.
  • Impact investment is investment that has the same intention as ESG, but measures its impact rigorously. Today, it's counts for a trillion dollars. 

Why is the world moving in the direction of impact?

The values of consumers and of talent have been changing. 

  • Consumers are shifting away from the products of harmful companies to companies that do less harm, or do good.
  • Talent is refusing to work for harmful companies, preferring to work for companies that bring solutions rather than create environmental or social problems.
  • Businesses understand that, for example, if they continue polluting or using child labor, they will lose consumers, talent and investors. Opposition to company damage is now breaking into the open at shareholders meetings. 

How does impact converge with leaps in technology?

  • Leaps in technology, through artificial intelligence, machine learning and augmented reality enables us to deliver impact that improves lives.
  • Technology and big data enables us to measure in a granular way. For example, the impacts that companies create through their operations on the environment, or through the employment practices, products and people. 

What kind of comparable information do we need from companies?

1. Environmental damage
2. Employment impact (measuring diversity, differences in advancement of ethnic and gender groups, differences in pay)
3. Product impacts (impacts on health and the environment)

What role can the government play?

If we want to have comparable information about the different impacts of companies, then we need governments mandating it. The Biden administration, the EU and national governments will now hopefully begin to require companies to publish impact weighted accounts.

What role can asset managers and consumers play in bringing about change?

  • We should require asset managers to ensure companies publish their data and to push governments to standardise it.
  • We, as consumers, can encourage impact transparency by shifting our consumption away from the companies that are doing harm to those that are doing good. Companies will then realise that putting accurate information in the market about their impact is the best thing for them to do. 

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Sir Ronald Cohen

Sir Ronald Cohen

Sir Ronald Cohen is the Chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative at Harvard Business School and The Portland Trust. At the start of his career, he co-founded the private equity firm Apax Partners. In 2020, he wrote the bestselling book “Impact: Reshaping capitalism to drive real change”. Considered the Father of Social Investment, in 2012 he received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Innovation Award for innovation in social finance.

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