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Peter Burgess

a must read in impact investing

the article is absolutely essential to understand the topic and the comments are from the top influencers of the sector. You should read it: http://ssir.org/articles/entry/a_coming_of_age_for_impact_investing

A Coming of Age for Impact Investing (SSIR)

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Alexandre Durrande, Alonso Caro, Robert Maylath, +4 like this Project Ahead

Diederik van Duyn

the pain is that 'the market' has no -common interest- approach or a model for the market as a vehicle. there are tens-of-thosuands of very -individual and small projects- that operate in a individual environment. it needs anew model. and it is there 17 days ago Like(0)Reply privatelyReport spam

Peter Burgess I think it has become clear that there is an appetite for impact investing, but the state of metrics for impact investing is simply not very useful. Metrics for corporate profit are well established and the correlation between corporate profit and stock valuations reasonably well understood, but there is nothing like it yet for investment in impact.

One of the characteristics of corporate money accounting is that it is very efficient and cost effective. Most of what is going on in impact analysis is costly and inefficient ... too many words and not enough numbering. In my view, it is time to look at the data architecture that is needed in order to have low cost effective reporting of impact so that better decisions about allocation of resources can be made.

I am working on this. It is not easy, but some progress is being made. Please stay tuned.

Peter Burgess http://www.truevaluemetrics.org

'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Initiatives/GIIN/GIIN-Cambridge-Associates-Introducing-the-Impact-Investing-Benchmark-2015.pdf'