Impact Investing (Online)
Today, the scope of impact investing has broadened to encompass global change and generate competitive returns. Billionaire capitalists such as Paul Tudor Jones and trillion-dollar financial giants such as J.P. Morgan are active participants, building a range of impact products and propelling the impact investing market to over $715 billion, according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).
Sustainable and impact investing is attracting enough capital to start having a meaningful impact on the world’s most pressing problems. Globally, more than $22.8 trillion is invested sustainably, representing more than one dollar for every four dollars under professional management. The rapid pace of recent growth has been driven by a fundamental shift in how investors and asset owners view environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors. As the fastest growing segment of sustainable investing, impact investing is a strategy that modern investors, financial advisors, and money managers need to be well versed in, especially as a new generation of investors clamor for it.
This six-week online program is designed and taught by Bhakti Mirchandani, who teaches an award-winning impact finance course for Columbia’s Masters in Sustainability Management program and has authored more than 90 articles on sustainable and impact investing.
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By participating in the program, you will:
- Explore how mainstream financial instruments and financial markets work as the backdrop for devising a sustainable investing strategy
- Understand the investment value chain, from asset owners and asset managers to organizations, using application exercises and case studies to illustrate these three vantage points
- Discover how successful impact investors measure social and environmental impact and use it to guide investment decisions
- Examine seven approaches to sustainable and impact investing:
- Private equity in frontier markets
- Environment, social, and governance (ESG) integration
- Mission-related investments
- Social impact bonds
- Green bonds
- Crowdfunding
- Investment stewardship
Introduction to Impact Investing
Define impact investing, review foundational concepts related to the field of investing, and reflect on the early years of program-related investments and microfinance capital markets transactions.
Measuring Impact
Define the first link in the investment asset chain — the asset owners — and examine three different frameworks for impact measurement.
Fixed Income Impact Investing
Explore how materiality varies across the capital structure, delve into sustainability for a range of fixed income strategies, and integrate ESG into fixed income pricing.
- Institutional investors and family office professionals who need to upskill in this increasingly important investment segment, justify impact investing, and respond to stakeholder demand
- Venture capitalists, angel investors, and high net worth individuals who want to advance their mission of making a positive impact with their investment dollars, gaining the quantitative and qualitative skills required to make a measurable impact
- Financial advisors and consultants who want to provide intelligent impact investing solutions for modern investors, including millennials and Gen Z’s, who are more motivated to invest in assets that align with their personal values
Prerequisites: Some knowledge of financial markets and instruments such as equities, bonds, and CDOs is required.
Upon completion of this program, you will earn credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits.
Attendees are upper-level executives with ideally 10 years of experience (could be less) who wish to do a deep dive into their leadership skills and who have a team or teams reporting to them.