Mainstreaming Impact Investing 2013Summary of Impact Investing Sessions at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013Davos-Klosters, Switzerland

Background Why a Game?Who Participated?How Did the Game Work?What Did We Learn? Contact InformationAdditional InformationInvestment OptionsInvestor Profiles

BackgroundMainstreaming Impact Investing is a continuation of the Forum’s multi-year initiative on sustainable and impact investing. The objective is to identify in what ways impact investing may be a feasible strategy for certain traditional and mainstream investors and, where suitable, what factors are required to accelerate the flow of capital to impact investments from such investors.To accomplish this objective, the World Economic Forum team will:

• Bring together experts from the impact investing sector to collaborate and share insights 

• Work with traditional investors (e.g. institutional investors), policy-makers and others who are less familiar with impact investing to evaluate existing challenges and potential solutions

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013, leading practitioners from the investment industry convened to discuss and consider:

• The challenges institutional investors face when trying to fit impact investment into their existing portfolio

• Creative ideas that institutional investors could use when making an impact investment

• The main factors that influence the investment decisions of institutional and private investors when considering an impact investment

This was done in the format of an interactive game.


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