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Recent BlueMark news and announcements.
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Recent BlueMark news and announcements.
Building Bridges – “Infrastructure for Impact Accountability: Towards Standards for Quality Impact Reporting”
Impact Entrepreneur – “Impact Verification”
Financial Times – “Fund targets transition for big industrial polluters”
Harvard ALI Social Impact Review – “Elevating Qualitative Data in Impact Performance Reporting”
BlueMark submits comment letter on SEC’s proposed ESG disclosure rule
BlueMark submits comment letter on ISSB’s General Sustainability-related Disclosures
FundFire – “Investors, Managers Like but Don’t Depend on New Impact Tools”
Capital Monitor – “Investors adopt impact principles amid ESG backlash”
ImpactAlpha – “Five investors that are driving a “race to the top” in impact management”
New Private Markets – “The 5 top-ranking impact firms, according to BlueMark”
Pioneers Post – “Less than a third of impact investors actively consult stakeholders when managing impact – BlueMark report”
ANNOUNCEMENT – “BlueMark Introduces Leaderboard of Impact Investors With the Strongest Impact Management Practices”
Leaderboard and expanded data set on best practices in impact management released as part of BlueMark’s third annual ‘Making the Mark’ report BlueMark, an impact verification specialist, today published its third annual report on best practices and trends in impact...
Making the Mark: Spotlighting Leadership in Impact Management
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”
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
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