The Global Impact Investing Network’s Post

Every time I say this out loud, it startles me! Investors cannot know their progress until they compare their performance to something—last year's performance, their peers, or a threshold of required performance. Investors focused solely on financial returns do this with ease. There is sufficient performance data available, allowing them to successfully track their financial progress. They can compare their performance to last year (e.g., percentage change from last year), to peers (e.g., relative performance in the same class, sector, or geography), and to a threshold (e.g., relative to an index or economic measure). However, impact investors, who aim for both impact performance and financial return, have more work to do. They need to develop the discipline of sharing impact-relevant data and using tools to perform similar comparisons. The GIIN's impact performance benchmarks are a step in the right direction for impact investors to track their impact performance. Imagine knowing whether you are missing the mark or hitting the sweet spot for the effectiveness and efficiency of your impact results! This knowledge would significantly influence your future decisions. Even inform the choices you make to retain an investment, the technical assistance you draw in, the management discussions you may have, and the direction of your proxy voting - all in the interest of improving impact and financial performance. Comparing performance to widely used SDG thresholds shows what is possible for any threshold. It also provides a stronger foundation for investors to manage toward positive outcomes for people and the planet. Well done, The Global Impact Investing Network Research and the Impact Lab! #impactinvesting #impactmanagement

This is very interesting and crosses all agriculture markets.

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