A Growing Market

Impact investments have kept rising over the past decades, reaching $1.6 trillion USD according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) [1] – that is $ 1.6 trillion USD in assets allocated toward solutions supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. The market’s compound annual growth of 21% since 2019 is a testimony to the investors’ appetite for investments that make a difference.

Impact Investing is spelled in two words – with equal meaning!

Impact investing is a highly powerful segment of sustainable investing. Its appeal to investors is linked to its first part: “impact”– they understand, and fully use, the power of this type of investments to achieve positive outcomes, in the social or environmental domain.

But there is also a second part - “investing” – which refers to its potential to generate financial returns.

Beyond a virtuous goal, this dual objective is also a reality: ninety-four percent of respondents to the GIIN’s 2024 Impact Investor Survey said that both their financial performance and their impact performance met or exceeded their expectations[2].

What a compelling feedback!

How does this work at Candriam?

Candriam Sustainable Bond Impact, launched in 2021, aims to combine this dual objective of generating impact and returns, within a universe of global bonds including investment grade, high yield, emerging markets, corporate and sovereign issuers.

Our investment team makes sure that the key principles of impact investing – intentionality, additionality and measurability – are systematically integrated in our investment process.

[1] Source: Global Impact Investing Network, Sizing the Impact Investing Market 2024
[2] Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Impact investing, like all investments, involves risks.