GSG Impact

💸 Today wholesale impact investors throughout the world manage over $3bn. What are the lessons from their success, and how can we roll-out more at scale and pace? 📶 This new report details the experience of 19 GSG Impact National Partner 🌐 countries and regions in Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America. 11 are established, managing an aggregated $3.1 billion, with eight in development, a 280% increase 📈 on the five in operation in 2019. Through an analysis of existing governance models, financial structures, funding sources, impact measurement practices, and investment strategies, set in the context of individual markets and countries, the report is a 🔎 “how to” guide for market builders, governments and both public and private sector investment managers. Detailed examples demonstrate the catalytic role of wholesale impact investors to attract additional capital, bring new impact investors to market and develop the broader market. Key criteria for success, wholesalers should:  🏛️ Have government support, but independent management 🎯 Take an impact first approach 💼 Focus on financing and developing intermediaries 🔄 Increase the flexibility and availability of capital 🌱 Be self-sustaining 🌍 Promote diversity, equity and inclusion 🤝 Collaborate with market stakeholders to innovate new investment products Read ⬇️ Cliff Prior │ Gila Norich│ Kyungmin Park│ JinKyung Choi │Sir Ronald Cohen│ Stephen Muers, Better Society Capital│ Ana Laura Fernández, Fondo de Fondos│Amma Lartey, Impact Investing Ghana│Austin Mwape, Peter Chintu, Zambian National Advisory Board for Impact Investment (NABII)│Etemore Glover - (MBA), Impact Investors Foundation IIF│Filipe Almeida │Masataka Uo, GSG Impact JAPAN │Chul Woo Moon│Jillisa Brown│Şafak Müderrisgil, Etki Yatırımı Danışma Kurulu "EYDK" - Impact Investing Advisory Board, Türkiye NAB│David Hetherington, Impact Investing Australia│Susanne Bregy, Bundesinitiative Impact Investing│Atika Benedikta│Monica Rossi, Impact Investing SA│Jose Luis Ruiz de Munain, SpainNAB │ Access - The Foundation for Social Investment│Pathway Fund │Silvia Manca │European Investment Fund (EIF) #wholesaler #ImpactInvesting #impactinvestors #SustainableFinance

Join leaders 🗣️ from across the GSG Impact Partnership at #ImpactWeek organised by Impact Europe in Bilbao on 27-29 November. Our European National Partners play a vital role in growing impact investing in their countries, get the latest on their work and future plans from: 🇧🇪 Steven Serneels, Impact Finance Belgium 🇳🇱 Laure Wessemius-Chibrac, Netherlands Advisory Board on Impact Investing 🇫🇷 Thierry Sibieude, FAIR - Label Finansol 🇪🇸 Jose Moncada Durruti, SpainNAB Moderador: Álvaro Molina de Porres, EY 📆 28 November │ 4:15 UTC +1 📍 Bilbao, Spain Register 👉 https://lnkd.in/dsX9sM34 #ImpactInvesting #impacteconomy #spain

India Impact Investment Trends: Climate-tech 🌱🤖 investments deals take the largest piece of the pie 2023 saw 275 impact enterprises raise $2.9 billion in equity investments, a decline  📉 from the $6 billion in 2022, according to the latest report from Impact Investors Council (IIC), our National Partner. 🇮🇳 • In 2023, the Climate-tech sector attracted $804 million across 123 deals, making it the 🔝 top-performing sector in India's impact investment landscape • The next $695 million went to companies in the financial inclusion sector with Fintechs and SME financing companies dominating innovative 💡 financing • The largest deal of the year was in the Healthcare 🩺 sector with PharmEasy raising $420 million ♀ Women-founded enterprises raised 🚀 a total of $217 million, 17% of the total raised in equity deals, demonstrating the importance of gender-lens investing Read the full report by our National Partner ⬇️ #India #ImpactInvesting #ClimateTech #GenderLensInvesting Acknowledgements: Divya Pinge, Varun Reddy and ICC team, Omnivore (Reihem Roy, Saborni Poddar), abcIMPACT, A Member of Temasek Trust Asset Management (Sugandhi Matta, Zuo Yi Yeo), Enzia Ventures ( Namita Dalmia), Elevar Equity (Jyotsna Krishnan), Somerset Indus Capital Partners (Zulfikar Trivedi), Chiratae Ventures (Sudhir Sethi, Pavan Balakrishna, Kailashnath M S, CFA), British International Investment (Aparna Mangla, Ragini Pillai), Parinama Group (Guneet Banga)

📈 Scaling SME Finance in Emerging Markets: Insights from DGGF’s 10-Year Knowledge Sharing Event Last month, GSG Impact’s Alasdair Maclay, joined an expert panel at the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) event hosted by Triple Jump, PwC, and Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. The event marked 10 years of DGGF financing 12,000 SMEs in emerging markets supporting 150,000 jobs 👷🏽♂️, and celebrated the growth in African venture investment from 💵 $100M in 2014 to over $3.5B in 2024. During Alasdair’s opening plenary, he called for an issue-led approach, emphasising the value of collaborative partnerships and the need for sustained impact ecosystems. Using a 🪴 ‘fertile soil’ analogy, he effectively illustrated the need to create the right ✅️ conditions for growth—an idea that resonated with the many agri-investors at the event. Together with close partners of GSG Impact including Argidius Foundation (Harry Devonshire), Collaborative for Frontier Finance (Drew von Glahn), British International Investment (Sarah Marchand), Ci-Gaba Fund of Funds & Savannah Impact Advisory (Hamdiya Ismaila), Dalberg & Scaling Impact (Kusi H.), and Ceniarth (Diane Isenberg & Harry Davies), discussions covered: 🌐 the need for citizens' engagement to push governments  🌾 advances in agritech in India  📍 place-based investment in Sudan Thank you to DGGF for initiating crucial discussions that will set the foundation for the next decade of growth. #SMEFinance #EmergingMarkets #ImpactInvesting #SustainableFinance

💡 MASTERCLASS: Reimagining sustainable finance through the power of natural capital investing Join GSG Impact at FT Live’s Global Wealth Management Summit on 6-7 November, where our Chief Strategy Officer, Alasdair Maclay, will be speaking. He'll cover:   🔸 How can wealth managers play a role in reframing ESG, and will the current global pullback ultimately lead to the creation of more credible products?   🔸 Aside from natural capital credits, what tangible biodiversity investment opportunities are emerging?  🔸 How are small nature projects being scaled, and how can clients ensure their capital has a direct impact? Other speakers include: 🔹Romie Goedicke den Hertog, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) 🔹Margaret Franklin, CFA, CFA Institute 🔹Harlin Singh Urofsky, Citi 🔹Elisa Battaglia Trovato, Professional Wealth Management Financial Times 🗓️ 7 November 2024 |11:50 AM - 12:35 PM GMT +0   📍 The Landmark, London  | In-Person & Digital | Register now 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ddB7UAtB #FTWealth #impactinvesting #NetZero #WealthManagement

Learn how impact investing can be scaled 📶 in emerging markets at our Dutch National Partner’s latest webinar on 📅 November 14th, 2024. The webinar is organised by the Netherlands Advisory Board on Impact Investing in collaboration with the Sustainable Pension Investments Lab (SPIL), and hosted by FMO - Dutch entrepreneurial development bank. It will explore the key findings from: 🔹"Ecosystem Building in Emerging Markets: Challenges in Scaling Impact Investing for Stakeholder Groups." NAB 🔹"Invest Where it is Needed Most: The Opportunities for Pension Funds for Impact Investing in Emerging Markets." SPIL 🗣️ GSG Impact’s Atieno Otonglo will share insights on the challenges and practical solutions needed to unlock impact capital in emerging markets. 🔑 Other speakers: Thomas Nauta, Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken Marcel Jeucken, SustFin Ltd Jaap Reinking, FMO - Dutch entrepreneurial development bank 🗓️ November 14, 2024 🕒 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM CET Register here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gmBzWAHW #impactinvesting #emergingmarkets #EM #solutions

📢 Join a landmark study shaping the future of investment Our UK National Partner, the Impact Investing Institute has partnered with Ipsos UK, an independent market research agency, to launch a first-of-its-kind research initiative examining how investment professionals conceptualise and approach investment purpose in today's evolving market landscape. This comprehensive study explores:  🔹Core principles driving modern investment strategies  🔹Critical decision-making factors in investment processes  🔹The interplay between risk, return, and sustainability considerations    🗣️🙋🏽♀️ Your perspective on the above is invaluable. By participating in a brief 5–10-minute survey, you will contribute to research that will provide unique insights into the transformation of investment narratives and practices. You’ll also get a chance to enter a prize draw for a £75 💳 voucher. Key details:  ⏰Deadline: Tuesday, 19th November  ⏳Time required: 10 minutes  🔒Confidentiality: All responses will be anonymised and will be presented only as aggregated statistics for research purposes 🟢 Participate in the Survey ➜ https://lnkd.in/gvQBsaev Your network's voice matters: We encourage you to share this survey with fellow investment professionals. Each response strengthens our ability to map the changing investment landscape and provide actionable insights and tools to the industry. #ImpactInvesting #SustainableFinance #MarketResearch #FinancialInnovation

💡 What is market development and why is it important? Often misunderstood, market development is about expanding capital flows towards impact. It's a critical process for ensuring that more resources are directed toward creating positive social and environmental change. Why it matters ✅: Market development translates ambition into action. By leveraging infrastructure, collective intelligence, and innovative instruments, we ensure that capital flows where needed most, driving positive social and environmental change. 🌐 Our role: GSG Impact, active in over 50 countries, works to progress the transformation of global financial systems so that every investment, business and government spending decision prioritises impact, alongside taking risk and return into account. 🔍 Learn how market development works and its fundamental steps ⬇️ #marketdevelopment #capitalmobilisation #emergingmarkets #impacteconomy

🔓  How can policy and regulation unlock Billions for Impact in Belgium? A sustainable future for Belgium that meets the SDGs by 2030 requires billions of euros annually in investment. The latest report from Impact Finance Belgium (IFB), our National Partner, presents four proposals alongside concrete pilot schemes to unlock private capital and catalyse Belgium's green and inclusive transition. 🔑 Proposals: 1️⃣ See state funds to co-finance projects with positive environmental and social impact. This could unlock €2.0-2.8 billion in private capital for critical areas like health, education, and sustainable infrastructure. 2️⃣  Create retail impact funds structure, making sustainable investment opportunities accessible to all  3️⃣ Adapt pension plans to include sustainable and impact investment options, modelled after international successes, this could channel at least €400 million towards scaling societal benefits. 4️⃣ Align public spending with sustainability goals, by opening the way for more green bonds and sustainable financing practices, potentially generating an additional €800 million. Read more 👇 Acknowledgements: Freshfields (Deborah Janssens, Steffie De Backer, Nikolaas Van Robbroeck, Wouter Van Der Veken) Sounding Board (Geoffrey Delrée - FSMA, Jan Alexander - BVA | Belgian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association, Jana Bour - Impact Europe, Kenny Frederickx -Forum Ethibel, Loïc De Cannière - Incofin Investment Management, Marc Van de Gucht, Febelfin) and others. #Policy #Belgium #SDGs #impacteconomy

Join us at Cambodia’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Strengthening Conference 2024 (CAMESCO24) on 🗓 25th November 2024 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia— an initiative established to build a network with like-minded stakeholders to strengthen Cambodia’s entrepreneurship and investment ecosystem. 🌐🤝 What to expect? 🔸 Launch of our National Partner, Cambodia National Advisory Board for Impact (Cambodia-NAB) under the Impact Investing Track - H.E. Dr. Van Munin Chhieng, PhD, CEO of Khmer Enterprise and Kong Somphyvatanak, Senior Market and Funding Manager, Khmer Enterprise 🔸 Keynote by Masataka Uo Uo, CEO of Japan Fundraising Association and Vice Chair of Japan Impact Partner for GSG Impact JAPAN, sharing Japan NAB's achievements 🔸 GSG Impact’s Fai Wechayachai at the session on Nurturing a Vibrant Impact Ecosystem, with other leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia: Mark Selby, CFA of Mekong Strategic Capital, Romy Cahyadi of Instellar Indonesia and Indonesia Impact Alliance, Melissa Foo of Malaysia Impact Alliance (MyImpact) 🗓  25th November 2024 │ 8:30 AM – 17:00 PM ( UTC+7) (Networking Lunch) 📌 Diamond Island Convention and Exhibition Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia ✏️ Register for free: https://lnkd.in/gyJqFUDv #CAMESCO24 is initiated under the Enhancing Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Investment (3Ei) initiative, co-financed by Khmer Enterprise, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and co-implemented by Khmer Enterprise and Swisscontact. Strategic partners: GSG Impact and Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs Check out the agenda for the event⬇️ #ImpactInvesting #SustainableDevelopment #Cambodia #MSMEs