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Piecing together the impact investing puzzle

Ben Thornley, co-founder at Tideline, looks at how value creation practices bring a manager’s impact credentials into sharper focus, the strong positive correlation between impact and financial performance, and the role of allocators in incentivizing and enabling managers to deliver impact value.
Ben ThornleyNovember 5, 2024
Sustainability

Past returns: don’t even guide the past

The Thinking Ahead Institute's Tim Hodgson argues that past returns were over-stated, and future returns will be lower. More accurately, total value created will need to increase for shareholders to retain the same amount of value as previously.
Tim HodgsonNovember 25, 2019
Sustainability

Creating system value

The returns we need can only come from a system that works; the benefits we pay are worth more in a world worth living in, argues Marisa Hall from the Thinking Ahead Institute.
Marisa HallMarch 20, 2019
Opinion

A new framework for value metrics

Ideas about how businesses generate value and which groups benefit continue to evolve. The Thinking Ahead Group argues there are four sets of stakeholders, and has metrics in mind for each.
Marisa HallDecember 8, 2017
Opinion

Is chasing lower taxes really a strategy for value creation?

Investors are just beginning to understand global tax issues and the risks associated with aggressive tax planning by the companies int their portfolios, Fiona Reynolds, managing director of PRI says there are a number of common-sense measures that companies should begin to put in place.   The 2014 G20 Summit to be held in Australia […]
 September 12, 2014