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Investor's Guide to Impact - How Can Investors Change the World?

The guide gives investors the tools and knowledge to make informed investment decisions that render positive impact.

Florian Heeb

Assistant Professor for Sustainable Finance

Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

Date Published
23 September 2021

Doing good while doing well has become the mantra of sustainable investing. While it is easy to measure whether an investment did well, assessing the good created remains a challenge. This challenge is at the heart of CSP’s research on investor impact.

Having a positive impact on the world is a major motivation to invest sustainably. However, the complexity of assessing impact in financial markets is a hurdle for many investors. The tools that exist are prone to omit an essential precondition in measuring the impact of the investment: additionality. Additionality is the way the investment has an effect on the status quo.

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