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Campaigners predict impact-only future for investors

by Alice Murray 21 March 2018

All investments worldwide could factor impact within decades if fund managers, governments, academics and other stakeholders throw their weight behind responsible finance principles, according to campaigners. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) unveiled a six-step plan this week to ensure investing without environmental and social impact in mind becomes “unacceptable” in the future. Definitions for what constitutes impact, education and training programmes and supportive regulations could all help push global finances to an era where “do-no-harm” principles become a baseline standard, said the GIIN, an NGO backed by foundations and state development aid institutions.

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