Impact investing holds enormous potential to channel capital towards our most challenging social and environmental issues.
Learn about current market activity and performance, and Australian investor appetite to grow it much further.
Impact Investor Insights Aotearoa New Zealand 2019
Impact investing is set to grow exponentially in Aotearoa New Zealand over coming years with strong interest from all types of investors including those not yet active in the field, according to this landmark study.
99 investors – accounting for more than $83.5 billion of New Zealand’s assets under management – participated in New Zealand’s inaugural impact investment survey conducted by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) in partnership with The University of Auckland.
Respondents included investors already active in impact investing as well as those not yet active in the field, and comprised investment managers, impact investment fund managers, trusts, foundations, not for profit organisations, individuals, family offices and diversified financial institutions.
Impact Investor Insights Aotearoa New Zealand 2019, sponsored by AMP Capital, reveals that investors anticipate allocating a total of $5.9 billion to impact investing in the medium term. This would represent a six-fold increase in the capital currently deployed in impact investments, with $889 million of respondents’ capital currently earmarked as impact investments.
Benchmarking Impact: Australian Impact Investment Activity and Performance Report 2018
The Australian impact investment market is delivering positive financial returns for investors while also benefiting our environment and impacting the lives of tens of thousands of people.
Published in partnership with Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University, Benchmarking Impact 2018 is the primary source of market-based data on the composition, growth and performance of Australian impact investment products. It presents the findings from analysis of impact investment activity and performance for a data-set of 51 Australian impact investment products active at 31 December 2017, with a total product value of $5.8 billion.
Benchmarking Impact: Australian Impact Investment Activity and Performance Report 2016
In October 2016, Impact Investing Australia launched the Benchmarking Impact report presenting the findings from analysis of impact investment activity and performance data for a data-set of Australian impact investments active as at 30 June 2015, with a total product value of $1.2 billion.
Impact Investing Australia 2016 Investor Report
In March 2016, Impact Investing Australia published the results of Australia’s inaugural impact investing survey, conducted in collaboration with the Responsible Investment Association Australasia. 123 investors – including institutions; trusts and foundation; not for profit organistions; and individual investors – participated, providing an important contribution to understanding how the demand for impact investing is shaping in Australia.