Impact investing connects investors with innovative entrepreneurs and businesses working to create a better world.

1. The urgency to address global challenges

Pressures on the environment, the prospect of irreversible climate change, and a rising number of people who are denied the means to fulfil basic needs, require a fundamental change in the way we live and how we invest. There is an extraordinary opportunity to harness a growing wave of optimism and awareness as more and more investors are looking for a long-term partner with whom to invest. The UN Sustainable Development Goals, which were agreed upon by 193 world leaders in September 2015, underpin the realisation that a global and concerted effort is needed to reach a set of goals to end poverty, protect our planet and ensure prosperity for all. There is an opportunity for the financial sector to play a role as an estimated USD 7 trillion in investment capital is needed to address these key global challenges.

2. Long-term financial performance

Multiple studies show that in the long-term, the performance of impact investing is comparable to mainstream investing, but with the addition of creating real value and adding to a better quality of life. We believe the investment industry needs a paradigm shift: from thinking in short-term financial gains to long-term investments. Impact investing has the potential to be that paradigm shift and it is the only type of investing that we do.

3. Direct investments in the real economy

Through impact investing, investors gain exposure to companies or projects that deliver tangible social or environmental benefits. Together with our investors, we provide entrepreneurs and businesses with capital, expertise, and the network enabling them to add and create real value that benefits society and the real economy.

4. Full transparency

Full transparency means knowing exactly where money is invested and what it is doing. It advances accountability of fund managers and additional stakeholders, while promoting a new way of working in the financial industry.

5. Across asset classes

Impact investing has developed considerably in terms of the range of available investment options across asset classes. Impact investors already have the opportunity to build a portfolio across all asset classes where 100% of the assets can be committed to positive social and/or environmental impact.

Balancing financial and sector expertise

We provide investors with investment solutions that enable them to invest in a number of sectors which are key in the transition to a more sustainable society. At the same time, we provide entrepreneurs and businesses with capital, expertise and the network enabling them to add and create real value that benefits society as a whole.

Contributing to a vibrant society

We are driven by the ambition to address the challenges that our interdependent and interconnected world is facing through the conscious use of money and via entrepreneurs acting on those challenges. There is a critical role to play for the financial sector to realise a set of ambitious goals to end poverty, protect our planet and ensure prosperity for all.

Targeting healthy financial returns

We invest with the intention to realise positive change, combined with a long-term healthy financial return. This intention is our starting point and driven by the notion that money is a means and not an end in itself. Focusing on both social and financial return will result in an optimal allocation of capital, equally for both our investors and investees.

Triodos Investment Management invests to generate social and environmental impact alongside a healthy financial return. We focus our investment activities across several overarching themes:

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