Impact investing has experienced immense growth in the last decade, outperforming the benchmark for eight out of the last 10 years, according to the MSCI ESG Leaders Index. Utilizing FINTRX, our family office data and research platform, which covers hundreds of families active in ESG/impact investments, we've shared five family offices making impact investments across an array of industries, sectors, and asset classes. In an effort to address social and environmental issues around the world, impact investors aids mission-driven companies - whose innovations spur change - accelerate economic growth for the coming generations. Continue reading for further insight...
What Makes ESG/Impact Investing Attractive to Family Offices?
Impact investors make investments into companies, organizations, and/or funds with the intent of generating valuable social or environmental impact alongside a financial return. Investing with high standards to maximize financial performance and public benefit, impact investors aim for a financial return while also making a positive impact on the communities in which we live. These investments are immensely attractive to the family office ecosystem as they put forth the agenda of investing in a responsible manner, in addition to producing a strong ROI.
Below, we've summarized five family offices making impact investments. Let's take a look...
Pierre Omidyar Single Family Office
Single Family Office
The Pierre Omidyar Single Family Office is a Redwood, CA - based single family office, with additional establishments in Asia, Europe, and Africa. Since its inception in 2004, Omidyar has worked with its partners to impact people, communities, and the greater world through its investments. Omidyar Network invests in both public and private equity across a broad range of sectors, regions, and asset classes while maintaining a disruptive mindset and social-impact focus. These initiatives operate under the firm's principles of individual access, connection, ownership... (learn more).
Blue Haven Initiative (Simmons Single Family Office)
Single Family Office
Blue Haven Initiative is a Cambridge, MA - based single family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for competitive returns and positive social and environmental change. As one of the first family offices created with impact investing as its mission and focus, Blue Haven manages a diversified investment portfolio across asset classes from public equity and direct investments... (learn more).
Treehouse Investments
Single Family Office
Treehouse Investments is a New York City, NY - based single family office, with an additional office in Puerto Rico. The firm tends to focus a majority of their investment efforts on the impact investment and clean energy spaces such as solar and wind energies... (learn more).
BSW Wealth Partners Multi-Family Office
Multi Family Office
Founded in 1992, BSW Wealth Partners is a Boulder, CO - based multi-family office that serves a variety of high net-worth clients including private investors and medical professionals, providing them with a full-spectrum offering of investment management and various other family office services. The firm invests in both public and private equity across a range of sectors, regions, and asset classes, and is highly interested in impact investing... (learn more).
Vandewater Capital (Aintabi Family Office)
Single Family Office
Vandewater Capital is a single family office located in New York City, NY that invests in public and private equity across a variety of sectors, regions, and asset classes. Specializing in originating, structuring, and making proprietary principal investments across a myriad of industries, including green energy... (learn more).
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