What is impact investing?

Impact investing involves investing with the dual goal of generating a financial return alongside making a positive impact on society or the environment.

“As an investor, the way to drive change is to become an active shareholder and use your voice to engage with companies and convince them to improve their business practices. It’s also an option to take an exclusionary approach and just not invest in certain companies. Investors can definitely help solve social and other sustainability problems – they can also challenge their asset managers to use their muscle to effect change at investee companies.”

“It’s important to know there’s a difference between investor impact and company impact,"

The most important starting point for any investor is to teach yourself how investing works and how to play part on the particular company you have invested in or read carefully their reports, should you find any uncertainty use the necessary channels to voice out your view points and ideas.