Leading Asset Managers Endorse Impact Investing

A growing number of leading traditional banks and investment firms, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, JP Morgan Stanley, Citibank and Bank of America are quietly bringing an investment trend into the mainstream.

These leaders champion the idea that businesses and investments can be a powerful tool for social and environmental good, beyond the jobs they create. These institutional investors believe that products and services that address daunting social and environmental challenges can also generate compelling financial returns for their investors. As a point of interest, in 2018 total Assets under Management (AUM) in this category totalled over $500 billion. As a function of impact investing, these investors commit to investing with intention, meeting measurement standards and ensuring transparency so that the true impacts of investing with intention can be measured.

In addition to traditional banks and fund managers, impact investing is appealing to a wide variety of investors:

• Development finance institutions
• Private foundations
• Pension & insurance funds
• Family offices
• NGO’s
• Religious institutions
• Individual investors

For more about Impact Investments that are accessible to private individuals and Family Offices, refer to the Treeme Carbon Offsetting Investment herein.