GIIN Report: Institutional Asset Owners – Strategies for Engaging with Asset Managers for Impact
14th January 2022 | Hong Kong
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), one of the earliest global network of impact investing founded in 2009 with over 20,000 impact investors & market stakeholders, has released a report for institutional asset owners to help asset owners and investment managers work more effectively together as they incorporate impact into their portfolios. The GIIN Report is titled: Institutional Asset Owners – Strategies for Engaging with Asset Managers for Impact. The report includes top challenges faced when incorporating impact investments, best practices recommendations to deploy capital, and real-world examples of asset owners at the forefront of impact and sustainable investing. View: Website | Report Brief
“ Institutional Asset Owners – Strategies for Engaging with Asset Managers for Impact “
GIIN Report: Institutional Asset Owners – Strategies for Engaging with Asset Managers for Impact
Institutional asset owners such as pension funds and insurance companies have an immense opportunity to deepen their engagement with external asset managers to achieve greater impact results for people and the planet. As more institutional asset owners enter the impact investing space, it will be crucial for them to better align impact incentives with asset managers at each stage of the investment process. There is, however, a gap in market knowledge regarding how institutional asset owners are engaging with external asset managers to achieve real-world impact results, alongside financial returns, particularly within an existing portfolio.
The GIIN’s research brief: Institutional Asset Owners: Strategies for engaging with asset managers for impact addresses this gap in the market. Building upon the institutional asset owner series, this second research brief explores the ways in which institutional asset owners work with asset managers to incorporate impact within their existing portfolios. The first Institutional Asset Owner brief focused on investors’ approaches to identifying impact priorities and setting targets – a critical step in enabling asset owners to assess progress relative to their goals and revise targets as needed. This new research brief reveals approaches asset owners are taking to collaborate with asset managers to achieve impact.
Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from institutional asset owners along with qualitative data from asset managers and intermediaries, this research seeks to detail which strategies and mechanisms asset owners may need in place to align with asset managers to achieve impact across their portfolios. The research brief covers the nature of engagement with asset owners, challenges in pursuing impact alongside asset managers, and strategies to align impact incentives with external asset managers. Specifically, this research offers insights into existing practice and strategies institutional asset owners take to align with asset managers when managing impact performance. The key strategies that asset owners can employ to engage with asset managers to apply an impact lens to existing portfolios include:
- Articulating specific impact objectives or priorities;
- Codifying impact in formal investment and legal documents;
- Identifying and using standardized impact reporting systems; and
- Establishing expectations for rigorous impact reporting to enhance alignment.
View: Website | Report Brief
About the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
The Global Impact Investing Network is the global champion of impact investing, dedicated to increasing its scale and effectiveness around the world. Impact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.
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