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Recent BlueMark news and announcements.
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Recent BlueMark news and announcements.
New Private Markets – “Impact LPs issue call for quality reporting”
Joint Statement by Limited Partners on Advancing Best Practices in Impact Performance Reporting
As Limited Partners (LPs) with extensive experience allocating to private market impact investment funds, we expect our General Partners (GPs) who manage these funds to provide us with regular reporting on both the financial performance and the impact performance of...
Investment & Pensions Europe – “‘Quality impact performance reports are transparent about lessons learned’”
BlueMark research – “Raising the Bar: Aligning on the Key Elements of Impact Performance Reporting”
BlueMark Publishes Research Calling for Market Alignment on the Key Elements of Quality Impact Performance Reporting
“Raising the Bar” report is first in a series aimed at improving the quality and usefulness of impact performance reports produced by impact investors Apr. 19, 2022 – BlueMark, a specialist provider of impact verification services for investors and companies,...
New Private Markets – “BlueMark appoints Europe chief”
BlueMark Adds Paige Nicol as Director for Europe to Expand Impact Verification Services
Social impact professional previously held senior roles at Luminate and Omidyar Network BlueMark, a provider of impact verification services for investors and companies, today announced the appointment of Paige Nicol as the firm’s new Director for Europe. Nicol will...
ImpactAlpha – “Christina Leijonhufvud, BlueMark: Creating a benchmark for impact integrity”
Pioneers Post – “BlueMark raises $3.75m to boost impact verification for investors”
ANNOUNCEMENT – “BlueMark Raises $3.75 Million to Drive Greater Adoption of Impact Verification and Strengthen Trust in Impact Investing”
Funding includes a $2.25 million equity investment from Ford Foundation and Radicle Impact, $1.35 million in recoverable grants from The Rockefeller Foundation and an additional grant from the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing BlueMark, a provider of impact...
New Private Markets – “A guide to regs and frameworks”
BlueMark and Morgan Lewis publish report on “Making Sense of Sustainable Investing”
BlueMark and Morgan Lewis Publish Whitepaper for Sustainable Investors on Best Practices for Complying with Financial Regulations and Aligning with Industry Standards Asset managers today must address an ever-growing list of rules and expectations from regulators,...
Wall Street Journal – “Metrics Play Key Role as Private-Equity Firms Link Profits to Impact”
ImpactAlpha – “Adopting impact performance standards to hold sustainable investing accountable for real-world outcomes”
This article was originally published in ImpactAlpha and is jointly authored by BlueMark (Christina Leijonhufvud & Sarah Gelfand) and the Global Impact Investing Network (Kelly McCarthy & Dean Hand). “You can’t manage what you can’t measure” is a now familiar...
Private Equity International – “BlueMark: Verifying Impact”
Impact Entrepreneur – “Why Impact Management Matters”
New Private Markets – “Linking carried interest to impact”
PitchBook – Q&A with Christina Leijonhufvud, CEO of BlueMark
FundFire – “Putting a Spotlight on Impact Conflicts”
BlueMark receives grant from the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing
ImpactAlpha – “Why impact investors should pay attention to practices, not just performance”
This piece was originally published in ImpactAlpha. Most of us were taught growing up that the ends don’t justify the means. It matters how you go about achieving your goals. The same is true when it comes to impact investing – the process by which investors achieve...
FundFire – “Manager Alert: Regulators Want Proof of Your ESG, Impact Chops”
This article was originally published in FundFire and is co-authored by Tristan Hackett, Director, Europe for BlueMark, and Christina Leijonhufvud, CEO of BlueMark. Private fund managers may know their investors are increasingly embracing sustainable, impact or...
ImpactAlpha – “Why the impact investing industry is ready for a practice benchmark”
This piece was originally published in ImpactAlpha. Benchmarks play a crucial role in financial markets and asset management specifically, allowing investors to see how they stack up against their peers and making the allocation of capital more seamless and efficient....
Good Future podcast – “Christina Leijonhufvud: Benchmarking Impact Practice and Impact Performance with BlueMark” (LISTEN)
Pensions & Investments – “How to measure impact a work in progress”
ImpactAlpha – “What we learned from 30 impact verifications of investor alignment with the Operating Principles for Impact Management”
This piece was originally published in ImpactAlpha. Just like you can learn a lot about a car by looking under the hood, you can learn a lot about an impact investor’s practices and processes by analyzing their impact management systems. The Operating Principles for...
BlueMark comment letter to SEC on climate change disclosures
This comment letter was also published on the SEC website here. The full text is included below. Re: Public Statement: Public Input Welcomed on Climate Change Disclosures, Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee, March 15, 2021. Chair Gensler, I am writing this comment letter...
Responsible Investor – “Why the OECD and UNDP are partnering on SDG Impact Standards” (subscription-only)
Forbes – “New Benchmark Of Impact Investor Management Reveals A Mixed Bag”
Investment & Pensions Europe – “Impact practices weaker at later stages of investment cycle – research”
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