By Dean Hand, Hannah Dithrich, Sophia Sunderji & Noshin Nova (GIIN Research Team)

The 10th edition of the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) Annual Impact Investor Survey reflects insights from 294 respondents that collectively manage USD 404 billion of impact investing assets. Respondents shared their investment activity for the year ending 2019 and their plans for 2020, their reflections on developments over the past decade, and their views of future challenges facing the market. The report also includes longitudinal analysis of 79 repeat respondents that completed both this year’s survey and the 2016 survey (providing year-end 2015 data).

The survey data collection period (February to April 2020) coincidently took place as the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, the full consequences of which remain unclear. As the world wrestles with its response to and recovery from COVID-19, significant economic implications in every geography and sector appear likely. For this reason, following the close of data collection on April 5 2020, the GIIN additionally invited participating investors to share their reflections on the implications of COVID-19. Among respondents, 122 shared their perspectives on how COVID-19 might change their future allocations and risk assessments.

To place the Annual Survey’s insights in the context of the broader impact investing market, this report updates the estimate of the size of the impact investing market, drawing on the market-sizing methodology, as part of the initial release in April 2019.2 Based on a database of over 1,720 impact investors, this methodology estimates the size of the current market at USD 715 billion.

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