The Demise Of Impact Investing

A careful analysis of the decade gone by will highlight the evolution within the impact investing sector. The expansion of this sector has spurred industry experts to hold counter viewpoints – a faction that believes that the changes have been positive while the others opine that the “impact” of impact investing has diminished over the years. Despite this dissonance, industry leaders can cohesively echo that the changes within impact investing have definitely been fundamental in nature.

So, what have been the proponents for change within the sector? As an investor with close to two decades of managing funds, the last seven years of impact investing have been far more challenging than my first seven years in traditional private equity. The reason why private equity may seem like an easier path to tread is because PE/VC investments offer complete clarity on the objective and its end expectation. Fund managers have no option but to walk the talk.

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