S Club: 'It's extremely difficult to have impact in listed markets'

If impact investing requires additionality, creating positive real-world outcomes that wouldn’t have occurred had that capital not been allocated in that way, can that really be found in listed markets where capital is just going to the previous holder of the securities?

To explore this further, I enlisted the help of James Purcell, group head of sustainability and Quintet Private Bank, to discuss what impact investing actually is, how fund houses approach this issue, and innovative instruments that could create more real-world impact in listed markets. ‘