Impact Investments. An emerging asset class.

This report laid an important foundation for knowledge production about impact investing. Published by J.P. Morgan Global Research in 2010 as a result of collaboration between Social Finance at J.P. Morgan and The Rockefeller Foundation, in partnership with the Global Impact Investment Network, the report's authors suggest that impact investing will establish itself as an important investment movement. Already in 2010 Impact investing has gained traction among a wide range of investors, including large-scale financial institutions, pension funds, family offices, private wealth managers, foundations, individuals, commercial banks, and development finance institutions. The report includes the first large-scale data analysis of return expectations from more than 1,000 impact investments and compares them to established benchmarks for emerging and developed market debt and equity returns.