Can impact investing make a difference?

Impact investing takes SRI to the next level says, Alex Weiland, CIO of Truestone Impact Investment Management.

Investment communities and big businesses have long sought ways to ease their social consciences. They have tried environmental and ethical investment that excluded tobacco and arms manufacturers, and more recently socially responsible investment (SRI). SRI is defined by the Social Investment Forum as combining “investors’ financial objectives with their concerns about social, environmental and ethical issues”. Indeed most large global companies have SRI policies, the trouble is they are creating the very problems their policies are meant to ease. A cursory glance at the FTSE4Good Ind...