Impact Investing

The investing process has grown more intentional over the past decade. Investors increasingly demand portfolios that deliver financial returns while also aligning with environmental and social values. Greater transparency and robust measurement metrics are critical in today’s investment world.

Increased demand for sustainably-aware investment strategies has driven both product and channel innovation. Firms have taken different approaches in response to this demand, developing a wide range of new products across SRI (socially responsible investing), ESG (environmental, social, governance) and impact investing. At Spencer Stuart, we have experience guiding organizations at each stage of this journey and we have a leading track record of placing innovators who are transforming the impact investing landscape.

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Spencer Stuart’s dedicated consultants have years of experience partnering with financial services clients across both public and private markets to build out impact investing capabilities. We have developed our expertise in impact investing through our work with leading alternative and traditional asset managers, investment banks, development finance institutions, foundations, pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and NGOs.

Our unique and diverse set of industry and functional experience enables us to solve for a broad range of impact mandates. Acting as strategic thought partners to our clients, we have successfully placed dozens of senior investment professionals, capital raisers, risk professionals, CEOs, COOs, operating partners and board directors across our global footprint.

We share our clients’ dedication to diversity; nearly two-thirds of our placements are diverse, and we remain committed to improving diversity recruitment. Additionally, most of our work is done with repeat clients who are committed to transformation in the impact investing and ESG space.