Swetha Balachandran

Dec 5, 2024 | impactalpha.com | Martina Castro |Yasemin Saltuk Lamy |Swetha Balachandran

Whether or not investors have to trade off financial returns for social or environmental good is a stubbornly sticky question in impact investing. What if it’s the wrong question? An analysis by British International Investment of more than 200 of our investments found that trade-offs weren’t showing up between financial returns and impact, but rather between financial liquidity and impact. Impactful investments can be found along the financial-return spectrum.