Category: Impact investing
The pie is too small for so many investors to be truly achieving additionality, says Pablo Verra The pie is too small for so many investors to be truly achieving additionality, says Pablo Verra The pie is too small for so many investors to be truly achieving additionality, says Pablo Verra
Aug 6th, 2020
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Ok, I have officially been quarantined for 137 days. Am I suffering from claustrophobia? Have I, all of a sudden, started advocating against my deepest beliefs? Have I just finished teaching a class on motivating students into doing something that does not work? Am I working to further develop a practice that, in the end, will not succeed? Have I given up on 'steering the Titanic' into a different way of investing?
While I will admit that the lockdown is starting to look, well, a little bit 'repetitive', I am more convinced than ever than impact investing is here to stay and that it will continue to grow at a more rapid pace than ever before. Is then there a contradiction with the title of this article? I hope not. What I am seeking to convey is that it is not necessarily healthy when major investment funds, banks, co…