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Investor's Guide to Systemic Investing

This guide is for impact-oriented wealth holders ready to embark on their systemic investing journey.

Dr. Jason Jay

Senior Lecturer and Director

Sustainability Initiative, MIT Sloan

Date Published
10 March 2025

Systemic investing is a relatively new and emerging approach to capital investment. The growing community engaged in systemic investing believes that we must face today's most pressing challenges collaboratively and holistically, due to the deeply interconnected nature of the systems that generate them.

While the nascent field of systemic investing can feel intimidating, this guide provides a roadmap for wealth holders and decision-makers across sustainable finance, impact investing, and wealth management. Systems are complex, but getting started in systemic investing need not be.

Drawn together in a community effort with the key networks in systemic investing in private wealth, the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan, the TransCap Initiative, The ImPact, and TWIST, the groundbreaking seminal guide empowers investors to explore systems thinking, transforming the current approach to impact investing. Building on a decade of firsthand experience working with wealth-holders, academic research, and interviews, the guide approaches the potential for capital to transform systems to produce the best long-term outcomes for both people and the planet.

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