Press Releases Booth, Harvard Business School, and University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Collaborate on Impact Investing Data Collection

The Impact Finance Research Consortium (IFRC) is a joint effort to collect comprehensive data on impact investing funds.

  • October 28, 2020

Chicago Booth’s Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation, the Harvard Business School Impact Collaboratory, and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School announced today the launch of the Impact Finance Research Consortium (IFRC), a joint effort to collect comprehensive data on impact investing funds.

The IFRC’s key initiative is to build a database on the financial performance, due diligence practices, investor relations, legal governance, strategy, and management of impact investing funds across the world. The resulting Impact Finance Database (IFD) will catalyze groundbreaking research on this young but rapidly expanding field.

Read the full press release at the Rustandy Center website

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