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The rise of impact investing

Impact investing, where capital is invested with the intention to generate measurable positive social or environmental impact alongside financial return, is responsible investment in its most powerful form. Assets invested for impact have grown rapidly over the past decade but still represent only a small fraction of global assets under management.

The global rise of impact investing, made possible by a growing ecosystem of pioneering not-for-profits, social enterprises, commercial businesses, investors, advisers and policy makers, has a crucial role to play in addressing the two major challenges facing the world: climate change and social inequality.

Bridging the gaps

Partnerships between governments, philanthropists and social and commercial impact investors, to provide blended finance, and mobilise private sector capital, are key to creating thriving and inclusive communities and securing a socially just transition to a net zero world.

At Collington Capital, we seek to contribute to moving towards a financial system where the social and environmental impacts of every investment will be targeted alongside financial return. We believe that, in time, authentic impact investing and blended finance, where capital is pooled together from sources including philanthropy, private investment and public money, will become mainstream.

We need to ensure that the impact investment propositions emerging at the margins can move into the mainstream, build scale and create a vibrant market that works for all participants and stakeholders. This will require the bridging of gaps between the owners of private capital and the enterprises which deliver impact.

Blended finance and intermediaries

We believe the mainstreaming of blended finance vehicles, which bring together multiple sources of funding and investment, is critical to the mobilisation of impact capital and the delivery of social impact at scale.

We must strengthen the ecosystem of intermediaries who design the blended finance impact solutions which mobilise impact capital. Their work is critical, yet often overlooked and underfunded. We consider that intermediaries are the key missing link between cornerstone actors in the impact investment chain.

Collington Capital aims to meet the need for intermediaries with the knowledge, experience and networks to bridge the gaps between the participants in the impact investment chain, to develop and launch fully funded blended finance impact investment vehicles, and mobilise private sector impact capital at scale to contribute to a more sustainable world.

Working partnerships

Our aim is to create long-term relationships, built on our values, that cut across the silos that limit innovation. Our ability to work across the three entities of The Collington Capital Group reflects, in microcosm, the way different sectors as a whole could work together to move blended finance into the mainstream.

We value deep, aligned partnerships across the sector, building communities of practice, sharing learning and research, and collaborating to achieve a shared vision. We look forward to welcoming others from financial services and the social sector with a similar commitment to creating a world in which capital markets drive positive social impact.

Inspiration and experience

The inspiration of Olivia Collington Dickson’s family’s pioneering work to achieve social justice, combines with the Founder Partners’ recent experience of Capital markets to create Collington Capital. A group whose vision is to realise the potential of capital markets to play a pivotal role in transforming the delivery of social impact at scale.