Creating positive impact

Impact investing

Allianz Global Investors strives to address some of the global economy’s most pressing challenges through impact investing. We define impact investing as intentionally targeting positive and measurable environmental and/or social outcomes, alongside financial returns. We focus on companies delivering goods and services that seek to provide solutions to key environmental or social problems.

“Impact investing is fast evolving out of its niche. Investors want to see a positive change for the planet while generating a return, and impact investing offers a solution to these twin goals. The future growth trajectory of impact investing depends on asset managers demonstrating how the impact can be measured and reported.“

Matt Christensen , Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at AllianzGI

Our capabilities

AllianzGI Impact Investing unit combines existing equity and debt investing expertise with an independent and dedicated impact measurement and management capability.

Our impact framework

AllianzGI has developed an impact framework that is aligned with industry best practices and standards. This impact measurement and management approach is applied consistently across the investment lifecycle of our private markets impact equity and debt strategies, and incorporates the flexibility to adapt the assessment process to different private market asset classes and strategies.

A key focus of our impact investments is on the “what”. We target companies making a significant positive contribution to environmental and social outcomes through the goods and services that are core to their business models, whilst seeking to generate attractive financial return.

We believe in appropriate alignment of employee performance management and/or incentive systems with impact outcomes. At AllianzGI, we believe the roll-out of such systems will be critical in the coming years and we increasingly discuss the potential for independently verifiable impact-linked performance incentive structures.

Bringing impact investing into private markets

Join Allianz Global Investors’ journey in co-creating private market investments with meaningful impact.

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Investing for meaningful impact in private markets

Greater clarity will be essential for impact strategies. We define our understanding of the requirements to support impact investing.

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