Social Impact Investing

Impact Investments:
An emerging asset class
Global Research
29 November 2010
investors because it provides comparable ratings across diverse portfolios of
investments, and investors have access to an aggregate rating, sub-ratings and
individual underlying data points. A robust assurance process, which is being
developed in coordination with the sustainability team at Deloitte, is intended to
provide a high degree of confidence in the accuracy of data reported for investors.
The current plan is to develop new versions of the rating methodology every two
years under the oversight of an independent standards board. This dynamism is
designed to enable the rating methodology to keep pace with developments in
academic impact evaluation, evolution in business models and the experience of
company and fund managers in collecting and reporting data related to social
performance.
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