This report explores the concept of materiality in the context of corporate sustainability disclosure. It discusses evolving definitions of materiality in the US and abroad, the need for a common language and structure for disclosure frameworks, and SASB's role in providing decision-useful and financially material information to investors and financial capital providers.

The report offers just transition criteria for investors, aligning products with climate action, socio-economic equity, and community involvement. It enhances existing frameworks, ensuring global alignment for a net-zero transition while emphasizing the three key elements: climate action, socio-economic equity, and community voice.

The Impact Investor Guide 2024 offers insights into the latest developments in impact investing with a comprehensive look across various asset classes and geographies examining how impact funds balance impact and financial returns. It features valuable insights from key industry figures and examines the challenges the sector faces.

This report synthesises evidence on the role of investors in addressing modern slavery in global supply chains. Key findings reveal that data limitations pose a significant challenge for investor action. Additionally, drivers for investor action include moral standing, financial incentives, regulatory compliance, and investor-led engagement.

This research aims to provide insights on the rapidly evolving impact investing landscape. The report is based on a survey of 12 high-performing impact investing funds that represent a diversity of asset classes, objectives, geographies, and impact areas.

This report provides practical guidance for asset allocators to evaluate and manage private market funds that invest for positive impact. It covers the pre and post-investment stages, including conducting diligence of impact managers and monitoring and engaging with them

This working paper aims to bring greater clarity and understanding to the impact investing field, which is characterised by diversity and complexity. Omidyar Network led this field-building initiative, with contributions from 45 expert interviews. The report outlines a concept for building “impact classes,” or common structures for assessing impact investing options.

This is a comprehensive and insightful guide for organisations seeking to engage with angel investors and support the development of entrepreneurship ecosystems in emerging markets. The report covers key topics such as the nature of angel investing, challenges facing angel networks, best practices and strategies, and practical tools for development institutions.

This report examines the extent to which financial authorities consider climate-related risks in their financial stability monitoring and contains information on the channels that the authorities use to manage the risks and the quantification of climate-related risks to financial stability.

This report explores new frontiers in impact value creation across private markets. It discusses key considerations for financial materiality of impact, sources of impact value creation, and modalities for impact value creation with a focus on case studies.

This briefing showcases how Canada has effectively extended financial access to survivors of modern slavery through its Public Private Partnership approach. This briefing offers practical insights and lessons for the financial sector.

Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) conducted a roundtable discussion with survivors, survivor support organizations, and financial institutions to address credit repair. Survivors' recommendations include implementing a manual review of onboarding processes, dismissing survivors' adverse credit, and developing a survivor-led approach to manage finances.

This blueprint urges financial institutions to tackle human trafficking and modern slavery, suggesting that both are a financial crime and compliance risk, and warns against wholesale de-risking. This report outlines strategies for detecting financing of such illegal activities, reducing risk, and government action towards AML/CFT risk assessments, ahead of regulatory fines and sanctions in jurisdictions worldwide.

This report analyses the growth of impact investing strategies among European pension funds. The report examines challenges and opportunities, regulatory restrictions, impact measurement and management, private equity case studies, and emerging investments in affordable and social housing.

The report highlights the Survivor Inclusion Initiative (SII), addressing the business banking and startup needs of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking. It outlines efforts such as training, support, expert review, and the global Survivor Business Roundtable to enhance survivors' access to financial services.

The briefing provides lessons to achieve financial inclusion of survivors of human trafficking and includes training and accommodations for survivor needs and experiences in compliance and due diligence processes.