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Investing with Purpose: The Why, What, and How of Impact Investing
In the Autumn of 2024, Impact Finance Belgium invited the Financial Forum to co-host a conference on Impact Investing. By the time it took place, the world had already changed. On June 13th, nearly 250 participants gathered at the National Bank of Belgium to consider a pressing question: Does investing with positive impact still matter in today’s volatile climate? The event brought together leading voices from Belgium and Europe’s financial ecosystem—from institutional investors to pioneering impact fund managers.
Investing with Positive Impact: Still Relevant in a Shifting World?
In an era of geopolitical turbulence and the erosion of long-standing institutions, one question looms large: Is investing for positive impact — for people and planet — still relevant today? The answer is not only “yes,” but “more than ever.” Despite shifting political winds, policy backlashes, and market volatility, the case for embedding impact alongside risk and return has never been stronger.
Investing for a Better Tomorrow: Presentation of different Strategies to Create Positive Impact in Practice
Every euro we invest shapes the future. It can reinforce systems that drive inequality and environmental breakdown — or it can fuel solutions that make societies more just, resilient, and sustainable. Traditionally, investment decisions have balanced risk and return. But in a world marked by climate urgency, rising inequality, and shifting global dynamics, there is a third dimension we can no longer ignore: impact.
Different Shades of Green: how different investment strategies add impact to the risk-return perspective
Insights from the BFF Panel 2025 based on multiple real-world cases in the social and environmental sector, illustrating the different strategies for positive impact.
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- To exchange, in the broad sense, knowledge about economic and financial issues
- To provide a meeting place for the financial sector and related sectors, public authorities, academic circles and businesses.
- To encourage debates and exchange of views on economic and financial themes;
- Various different formats are proposed, like conferences, colloquia, panel debates, etc.
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