€190bn European impact investing market revealed
The European Impact Investing Consortium’s latest data shows huge growth in impact assets under management, but flags that it represents only 2.5% of what could be invested for impact across Europe.
The European impact investing market now stands at €190bn, according to new research published during Impact Europe’s Impact Week.
Around 1,000 delegates gathered this week in Bilbao, in the Basque region of Spain, for the annual event of Impact Europe, the membership organisation for impact investors across the continent.
The new figure of €190bn – which represents private direct and indirect investments in unlisted assets – shows significant growth from the €80bn identified in the first study of this kind which was published in 2022.
The research, The Size of Impact, was carried out by the European Impact Investing Consortium, which aims to bring a consistent approach to measuring the size of the market. It brings together data from 431 organisations in 21 European countries (including the UK), compared with 285 organisations in 2022.