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For a growing cohort of investors, financial returns aren’t enough. Those investors seek social and environmental progress in tandem with competitive investment performance. Impact investing through public equities provides an innovative mechanism to help realise their objectives.

We also recognise our responsibility as an industry leader to help our trustees and clients prepare for the challenges and opportunities that the future will present and were delighted in 2020 to support the delivery of Ireland’s first Responsible Investment Trustee (RIT) qualification.

Including sustainability preferences in the advisory process makes sense. Over time, we will wonder why it wasn’t always part of the discussion.

Have professional footballers shown us the path to tackling our most pressing social challenges? The #PlayersTogether initiative launched during the covid crisis could be the springboard for  bringing capital to dementia research and investment. 

A social impact mindset is all about being aware of the society you live in and the power of your individual decisions to have an impact.

Thoughts on the “five archetypes of behavior” postulated by N. Craig Smith and Ron Soonieus in their Harvard Business Review article – “How Board Members Really Feel About ESG, from Deniers to True Believers” – which highlighted ‘the gap between aspiration and action’ when it comes to ESG.