Five building blocks for impact management - Franklin Templeton Investments

This paper by Franklin Real Estate Advisors, in collaboration with Tideline, seek to provide a guide to help investors build impact management systems that are both tailored to their strategic focus and aligned with best practices.

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... Impact investing is a growing practice that now covers almost $250 billion in assets under management. It differs from other kinds of sustainable and responsible investment strategies, such as the exclusion of certain investments on ethical or religious grounds, or thematic investing, which focuses on specific societal problems such as water scarcity or climate change. Rather, the defining feature of impact investing is the explicit intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental outcomes alongside a financial return in most cases.

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