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  • Less than half of impact reports are comparable, says BlueMark

    21 April 2022

    BlueMark has called for guidance from standard setters that makes the environmental and social impacts of investments "comparable" in financial reports.

  • SEC climate rules 'likely to spur legal action'

    16 March 2022

    Climate disclosure rules set to be decided next week by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will most likely spark legal action against the agency, according to the president of the US Impact Investing Alliance.

  • Impact fund provides grants to support IIRC, SASB merger

    12 March 2021

    The Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing has provided grants worth $500,000 to the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) - to help "unify the impact investing market behind a global standard", it said.

  • Biden urged to bolster US impact market with disclosure rules

    16 December 2020

    The incoming Biden administration has been urged to bolster US impact investment by pushing regulators to require sustainability disclosures and clarify the role of impact in investors' fiduciary duty.

  • Rockefeller, Packard and Ford among foundations backing impact scale-up fund

    07 February 2020

    The Rockefeller Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Ford Foundation are among high-profile US backers of a 'tipping point' fund designed to help boost the impact investing market.

  • US impact investors announce plans to expand the market

    27 July 2017

    A US group of impact investors, formed last year, has agreed a new mandate to enable it to advocate for favourable policies, catalyse the flow of impact capital, and expand impact investing globally.