According to the Global Impact Investing Network's ninth Annual Impact Investor Survey, the impact investing landscape is growing with organizations planning to drive more than $53.8 billion this year, 13 per cent up on the volume of capital invested annually.
About 266 global impact investors answered the poll, upon which the report was based. The survey has been conducted every four years.
Jeremy Burke, head of product & strategy at one of the survey's respondents, Impact Investment Group, stated there is an opportunity for wealth managers in Australia where "clients can connect the value to their money really clearly."
The report also noted that most impact investors allocated the greatest share of assets to energy (15 per cent), followed by microfinance (13 per cent) and other financial services (11 per cent).
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.