Impact Investing Research Lab

(Outlet: The People Space) A recent paper argues there is no statistically strong relationship between diversity, equity and inclusion and better financial performance. Does this lessen the business case for investing in DEI or should the case instead rest on a cultural and moral imperative rather than profit?…Read More

(Outlet: Forbes Online) After the first calendar year of outflows from US sustainable funds in 2023, the time has come for investors to consider rational sustainability as a middle ground between abandoning and continuing with ESG investing.…Read More

(Outlet: ImpactAlpha) Michael Brown, Head of Research at the ESG Initiative, discusses the Impact Finance Research Consortium’s recent report on catalytic capital in impact investing.…Read More

The Impact Finance Research Consortium (IFRC) has released a detailed report shedding new light on the features and applications of catalytic capital, investments bearing a high level of risk or accepting lower returns to stimulate positive social and environmental outcomes that would likely not be possible otherwise.…Read More

Wharton graduate Suzanne Biegel is a global leader in gender-smart investing who has influenced billions of dollars in capital. Biegel, 60, was recently diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and has been candid about her health. She said her illness has brought even sharper focus to her lifelong mission of gender equality and solutions to the climate crisis. This year, she and her husband, Daniel Maskit, invested $1 million to launch an endowment toward those goals. Biegel, a New Yorker who currently lives in London and has dual citizenship, spoke by phone to a reporter for the Wharton School about her career, her association with the school, and what she hopes will be a lasting legacy of change.…Read More