Expert: Why impact valuation is catching on

29 juli 2025
08:46
As impact investing matures, ever more attention is being placed on how to weave impact accountability and performance metrics into investors’ balance sheets.
A new report from the dedicated Impact Valuation Hub finds that impact-linked compensation and financing are the keys to locking those metrics in.
A new report from the dedicated Impact Valuation Hub finds that impact-linked compensation and financing are the keys to locking those metrics in.
"Impact measurement can be complex and inconsistent, but it’s essential" – so reads the mission statement of the Impact Valuation Hub, a network of investors and researchers. And indeed pursuing that measurement has long been a goal of the community, to both show concrete impact and hold funds to account on it.
In a new report, Bonnie Chiu, a senior advisor at Social Value International (which hosts the hub) and managing director with The Social Investment Consultancy, argues that the community knows how to do that measuring, and now it’s about implementation.