Practice Verification

Performance Verification

Service

Practice

Mandate | Ex ante

Reporting | Ex post

Our Approach

Our practice verification is an in-depth assessment of an investor or company’s impact management practices.

We analyze the compliance, quality, and depth of a client’s impact management systems and processes against key market standards.

Our mandate verification is a rigorous ex-ante evaluation of an investor or company’s impact strategy.

We evaluate the clarity of an investor’s impact thesis, its alignment with goal-setting and metrics standards, and the strength of supporting evidence.

Our reporting verification is a thorough analysis of an investor or company’s ex-post impact performance results.

We evaluate the relevance, comparability, balance, and reliability of a client’s reported impact information.

The Value

A practice verification can help:

  • Satisfy assurance requirements
  • Benchmark practice relative to peers
  • Identify areas for improvement
  • Gain investor confidence

A mandate verification can help:

  • Strengthen and clarify impact messaging and reporting plans
  • Establish alignment with industry standards
  • Increase credibility with investors

A reporting verification can help:

  • Improve the clarity and accuracy of reported impact results
  • Enhance future reporting processes and practices
  • Increase the trustworthiness of reported impact with stakeholders

What Our Clients Say

“The BlueMark team has been great in helping us make the verification process a real learning exercise, providing insights and drawing our attention to new resources that go beyond the requirements of the Principles.”

— Big Society Capital

“BlueMark represents critical accountability, given that impact outcomes have yet to be globally standardized. BlueMark brings transparency to impact processes and empowers market participants and stakeholders to confirm that impact outcomes are credibly derived.”

— Closed Loop Partners

“Our engagement with BlueMark has been an important part of our ability to both benchmark and improve our impact management efforts over time. The team brings a unique perspective of what is common and best practice in the impact marketplace and we have benefited from this insight.”

— KKR

Practice Verification

Service: Practice

Our Approach

Our practice verification is an in-depth assessment of an investor or company’s impact management practices.

We analyze the compliance, quality, and depth of a client’s impact management systems and processes against key market standards.

The Value

A practice verification can help:

  • Satisfy assurance requirements
  • Benchmark practice relative to peers
  • Identify areas for improvement
  • Gain investor confidence

What Our Clients Say

“The BlueMark team has been great in helping us make the verification process a real learning exercise, providing insights and drawing our attention to new resources that go beyond the requirements of the Principles.”

— Big Society Capital

Performance Verification

Service: Mandate |
Ex ante

Our Approach

Our mandate verification is a rigorous ex-ante evaluation of an investor or company’s impact strategy.

We evaluate the clarity of an investor’s impact thesis, its alignment with goal-setting and metrics standards, and the strength of supporting evidence.

The Value

A mandate verification can help:

  • Strengthen and clarify impact messaging and reporting plans
  • Establish alignment with industry standards
  • Increase credibility with investors

What Our Clients Say

“BlueMark represents critical accountability, given that impact outcomes have yet to be globally standardized. BlueMark brings transparency to impact processes and empowers market participants and stakeholders to confirm that impact outcomes are credibly derived.”

— Closed Loop Partners

Performance Verification

Service: Mandate |
Ex post

Our Approach

Our reporting verification is a thorough analysis of an investor or company’s ex-post impact performance results.

We evaluate the relevance, comparability, balance, and reliability of a client’s reported impact information.

The Value

A reporting verification can help:

  • Improve the clarity and accuracy of reported impact results
  • Enhance future reporting processes and practices
  • Increase the trustworthiness of reported impact with stakeholders

What Our Clients Say

“Our engagement with BlueMark has been an important part of our ability to both benchmark and improve our impact management efforts over time. The team brings a unique perspective of what is common and best practice in the impact marketplace and we have benefited from this insight.”

— KKR