Impact

Our approach

Our investing and market-building work is underpinned by a robust approach to impact management and measurement, and systems practice. Beyond our own operations, we are committed to help improve impact practice across the fund managers and social banks we invest in, and we play an active part in supporting advance impact and systems practice more broadly across the global impact investing community.

We consider BSC’s contributions to impact essentially at two levels.

1. Changes at the market system level, across different market stakeholders (from investors to enterprises) and market infrastructure (system change)
2. Changes in outcomes for people and end-users (impact on people)

Both levels of impact are considered throughout the investment life cycle, as well as within our broader market-building practice. ESG is similarly embedded throughout our investment process, for more detail please read about our ESG approach.

We fully acknowledge that a change in people’s outcomes is the impact that enterprises and charities directly contribute to. We contribute to such outcomes through our capital, as well as broader market-building activities. We consider both as BSC’s “investor contribution”.

We consider the understanding of impact important in its own right – it is the very reason we exist – and we believe it can be a powerful competitive advantage for funds and enterprises we invest in. It can help reduce risks and create broader long-term business value.