{"id":214,"date":"2018-06-15T15:49:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/?p=214"},"modified":"2018-06-22T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T16:40:06","slug":"impact-investing-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/2018\/06\/15\/impact-investing-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased impact investments in food and agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-215 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Female-investor-large-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Female-investor-large-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Female-investor-large-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/06\/Female-investor-large.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/>Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return, (Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), 2018).<\/p>\n<p>GIIN&#8217;s 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/thegiin.org\/assets\/2018_GIIN_Annual_Impact_Investor_Survey_webfile.pdf\"><em>Annual Impact Investor Survey<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<i><\/i>of 229 impact investors with assets under management of $228 billion show found that\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">1) the market is diverse;\u00a0 2) the impact investing industry is growing; 3) impact investors demonstrate a strong commitment to measuring and managing impact; 4) overwhelmingly, impact investors report performance in line with both financial and impact expectations; 5) impact investors acknowledge remaining challenges that need to be addressed within the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Good news for the food and agriculture sector, which was the most popular sector among impact investors with 57% of respondents collectively allocating 6 percent of their assets to the sector. And, a compound annual growth rate of 13% over five years resulted for 82 survey respondents tracked since 2013 with strong growth in sectors including the the food and agriculture sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return, (Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), 2018). GIIN&#8217;s 2018 Annual Impact Investor Survey\u00a0of 229 impact investors with assets under management of $228 billion show found that\u00a01) the market is diverse;\u00a0 2) the impact &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/2018\/06\/15\/impact-investing-is-growing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Increased impact investments in food and agriculture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}