2023 GIINsights

As the impact investing industry continues to evolve and mature, investors are increasingly allocating assets to impact and exploring approaches to manage their portfolios toward greater impact. The 2023 GIINsight report series offers a comprehensive overview of the impact investing industry, with actionable insights on impact investing activity and impact measurement & management practice. Each report seeks to fill a gap on impact investing insight in the market, reflecting data and perspectives from a diverse sample of 308 impact investors globally who collectively manage USD 371 billion in impact investing assets.  These reports also explore trends over time, by offering a five-year comparison among 88 repeat respondents of the 2018 Annual Impact Investor Survey and 2023 GIINsight.

"This seminal research provides impact investors and the impact-curious with key insights on market vitality. Most importantly, this year, investors show increasing diversification, strong growth and viability of their impact approaches – all healthy signs of a maturing impact investing market and the importance of capital being used to solve for the social and environmental challenges we face." – Dean Hand, Chief Research Officer, GIIN

The briefs aim to provide key insights on the industry:

• 2023 GIINsight: Impact Investor Demographics: Provides an overview of impact investor characteristics, including where they are based, target financial returns, organization types and geographic focus.
• 2023 GIINsight: Impact Investing Allocations, Activity & Performance: Offers insight on impact investors allocate their assets across geographies, sectors, stages of business and asset classes, and critically provides an overview of financial performance
• 2023 GIINsight: Impact Measurement and Management Practice: Explores impact investors’ approaches to measuring and managing their impact, including how impact investors set targets, accountability mechanisms, and stakeholder engagement approaches.
• 2023 GIINsight: Emerging Trends in Impact Investing: Dives into impact investing market trends such as climate solutions as an emerging interest, and the particular challenges faced by investors and perceived areas of progress in the industry.

To enable continued responsible industry growth, enhance market transparency and strengthen investor decision-making, investors are encouraged to explore these actionable insights as they consider implications for their own investing strategies.

The 2023 GIINsight briefs build upon the GIIN's previous flagship reports, the Annual Impact Investor Surveys, with a focus on identifying key insights and actions for investors.

Learn more by downloading the first two GIINsights to the right.