by Vaughn Rajah -

MICROFINANCE PAPER WRAP-UP: “Private Asset Impact Fund Report 2022;” by Anne Estoppey, Ramkumar Narayanan; Published by Tameo

This report is derived from a survey of managers of private asset impact funds (PAIFs), which are defined as investment vehicles “that have more than 50 percent of their non-cash asset[s] allocated both to private debt or private equity instruments and to emerging and frontier markets, with a development impact bias.” The survey sample comprises

by Tiannah Steele -

MICROFINANCE PAPER WRAP UP: “Sizing the Impact Investing Market,” Published by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)

This is a summary of a paper by Abhilash Mudaliar and Hannah Dithrich; published by GIIN; April 2019; 16 pages; available at: https://thegiin.org/research/publication/impinv-market-size

The authors assemble data, including the results of the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN’s) Annual Impact Investor Survey, to estimate the size of the worldwide impact investing market. GIIN defines “impact investments” as those that return a monetary profit while creating “positive, measurable social and environmental impact.” As of December 2018, the authors estimate the total assets under management (AUM) within the impact investing universe to be valued at