{"id":9393,"date":"2026-04-27T22:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.openvaluefoundation.org\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:04:20","slug":"blog-post-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/2026\/04\/27\/blog-post-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog post 91"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first is the paradigm shift experienced as a result of the crisis that began in 2007, which it has given companies and investors, both private and institutional, the opportunity to take responsibility for their social and environmental reality<\/strong> through impact investing. This assumption of responsibility and interest in impact investing is reflected in the Latest study by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)<\/a>, which reports that 85% of global asset managers are making impact investments in response to client demand. 

This gives rise to a new way of doing finance based on the joint valuation of performance, risk, and impact, in which financial markets are fundamental to supporting solutions to global problems. Consequently, it is necessary to fully understand this new concept of investment, so that a greater number of citizens and companies adopt this form of investment as a means of effective participation in resolving social and environmental conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is the demand to learn from past mistakes in the field of investment, because, just as happened with microfinance, impact investing is not in itself an appropriate or inappropriate type of investment<\/strong>, but simply a way to invest capital that will generate positive impacts only if used appropriately. Consequently, it is necessary for the impact investment industry itself to manage and measure such impacts to demonstrate their effectiveness, while research provides scientific rigour to the results achieved. 

Regarding the research contribution, it was in 2007 that the term \u201cimpact investing\u201d was associated with the proactive search for impact with financial return, meaning it is still a nascent industry. Consequently, existing research to date is mostly descriptive and exploratory in nature, as this reality as such has only existed for a very few years to be investigated quantitatively. Therefore, It's about supporting the sector's efforts to achieve greater consistency and rigour in the way impact is measured, while also promoting advancements in research.<\/strong> to bridge the gap between the scientific vision of impact assessment and the measurement of impact in industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These two facts highlight the need to to strengthen the identity of this new type of investment, to bring its concept, market, ecosystem and measurement and management practices closer to society, and thereby improve the scale and effectiveness of impact investment<\/strong>. 

To achieve this goal, the UAM \u2013 Open Value Foundation Chair in Impact Investing recently published the \u201cWhite Paper on Impact Investment<\/a>\u201dwhich systematically, clearly, and rigorously explains all aspects relating to impact investing: background and concept; the current characteristics of its market; the actors that make up its ecosystem; the different types of financial assets that characterise this industry; the various methodologies for managing and measuring economic and\/or social and\/or environmental impact; and finally, the challenges that impact investing currently presents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Value Foundation also sponsors the Master's in Impact Investing from the Autonomous University of Madrid<\/a>, contributing, thus, very significantly, to the development of educational programmes that make society more aware of this necessary assumption of social and environmental responsibility<\/strong> Impact investing entails investing in companies, organisations, and funds with the intention of generating a measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, we encourage our readers to delve deeper into impact investing by reading White Paper on Impact Investment<\/a><\/strong>, which brings great clarity and systematisation to the numerous concepts linked to this area, and to train as a high-quality professional in this industry through the Master's in Impact Investing from UAM<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El primero es el cambio de paradigma experimentado a ra\u00edz de la crisis iniciada en 2007, que ha dado la oportunidad a las empresas y a los inversores, tanto particulares como institucionales, de hacerse responsables de su realidad social y medioambiental a trav\u00e9s de la inversi\u00f3n de impacto. Esta asunci\u00f3n de responsabilidad e inter\u00e9s por la inversi\u00f3n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9395,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions\/9395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvaluefoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}